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Miss NADAGE DOREE 

(Born in Neiv Orleans ^ U, S, A, ) 



Jesus' 
Christianity 



BY 

A JEWESS 



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AUTHOR OF 

Geltaj or, The Czar and the Songstress," 
etc. 



AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY 

PUBLISHER'S AGENTS, NEW YORK 



1907 



USRARYnf CONGRESS 

Two CoDles Received 

JUN 14 190r 

Cepyneht Ef^ 

CLASe^Ol XXc, No. 
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Copyright, 1905, by N ADAGE DOREE 

Copyright, 1907, by NADAGE DOREE 

All rights reserved by the Author, 



" For what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, to love 
mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.** — Micah. 

"Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it.** 
— Luke xi., 28. 

** Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only.'* — James i., 22. 



DeMcation. 

To all righteous and God-loving people, 
ivith the hope that millions of voices will he 
raised in indignant protest, in every land, 
against the savage and inhuman treatment of 
the Jewish people; against the endless 
procession of innocent victims of bigoted 
prosecution marching on to the gates of 
martyrdom and despair; that Christendom 
may at once awaken to a true sense of justice 
and humanity; that they may realise the 
need of a deeper teaching, and may practise 
a hinder, truer and fuller religious life. 

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That they will, with their sympathy, love 
and co-operation, help to circulate this work, 
so that its influence shall kindle all that is 
best and noblest— that it may uplift and make 
the human race happier and better, is the fer- 
vent prayer of 

THE AUTHOR. 



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TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 

Dear Reader: 

To insure a unity of purpose, of joint and 
resolute endeavour, to show solidarity with 
our oppressed and persecuted brethren, to 
blot out the self-styled Christian persecutor 
from the family of nations, to help right the 
Monstrous wrong. 

I am striving towards a two-fold ob- 
ject: First because the policy of the govern- 
ments of anti-Semitic laws is at war with 
the providence of God, and in the name of 
Righteousness, that official determined action 
upon the part of this government, emanating 
from its legislative branches through the in- 



tervention of friendly offices;' that a com- 
bined pressure of the American people be 
brought upon Congress to take concerted 
steps which will bring to a termination this 
horrible chapter of Christian persecution and 
affliction, and in its place establish the prin- 
ciples of justice and humanity. Second, that 
from the sale of my books, subscriptions, and 
the money derived through my acting {the 
proceeds to be devoted to my work), I hope 
to raise a fund, which will enable me to hasten 
next Spring to Germany, Austria, and Rus- 
sia, the lands where barbaric anti-Semitic 
laws are a damning indictment of professed 
Christendom, to distribute (gratis) among 
the government employees, and the poor peo- 
ple, one hundred thousand copies (more if 
possible), of my book in the German lan- 
guage, feeling convinced that the greatness 



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of the nations and the progress of mankind 
depend upon educating public sentiment to a 
higher sense of justice and righteous dealing, 
to impress upon the rulers who officially up- 
hold and enforce anti-Semitic laws, that they 
are false to the Spirit of Jesus. My hooks 
must reach the lives of the people, until 
Justice and Love to tlie Jew be accorded in 
all lands by the mighty voice of Public Opin- 
ion, encouraging and aiding every child to 
uproot and extinguish the ancient race ha- 
tred, which was horn in confusion and per- 
secution, and surviving in misunderstanding 
of Jesus^ real teaching, ^'Love ye one an- 
other/^ 

For the Advancement of the Puhlic Good 
and the Glory of Almighty God, will you aid 
me in this great work? 

Will you go forth and do the work of the 



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Lord? To try by your moral and financial 
support to make things better in this world, 
even if only a little better, because you have 
lived in it? To be in fact as well as in theory 
^^ doers'' of the word and not hearers only? 
If so may the messages which I find in my 
heart to give you— may the cry of my soul in 
behalf of millions of innocent victims go forth 
and stir your noble hearts to individual and 
concerted action; may it rouse the righteous 
voice of the people, to annihilate anti-Semi- 
tism and persecution tvhich still disgrace 
Christendom, and may the sowing of your 
deeds rest upon you, for * ^blessed are the 
Peacemakers.'' 

With charity towards all, 

N ADAGE DOREE. 



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preface. 

FEOM the instant that the distant echo 
of the harsh discordant note of per- 
secution against the Jews first struck my 
childish ear, I felt that a great wrong was 
being daily committed in the world. Then 
there arose in me a desire, a great longing— 
at first vague, shadowy and indefinite— that 
something should be done. 

As I grew to womanhood and saw cruel 
injustice and intolerance hampering the 
spiritual development of man, a deeper and 
more intensified conviction took hold of me; 



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the Christian persecutors were not only in- 
flicting great suffering and sorrow upon an 
innocent, moral and peaceful race— the Jews; 
but they, the oppressors, were damming their 
own souls by their unchristian conduct. 

Then an overwhelming feeling for both 
victims and persecutors filled my soul with 
pity, and a deep yearning came upon me,— a 
God-inspired hope and courage to Shoot the 
Javelins of Justice into the ranks of bigotry 
and ignorance — to tear from the Christian's 
eyes the cataract of prejudice — ^to ring the 
alarm bells and summon to earth duty all 
people to prove their manhood and woman- 
hood. 

The cause is one that should interest every 
lover of human justice. There should be no 



such thing as race prejudice — all nations, 
all people should be counted into one great 
fraternity as vast as God's Kingdom. I 
have, therefore, written *'Gelta," and * 'Jesus' 
Christianity" to teach and elevate the be- 
numbed and benighted Christian persecutor, 
and to show him that the true follower of 
Moses and of Jesus is not one whose life is 
branded by hatred, uncharitableness and per- 
secution ; but one who is God-loving, gen- 
erous, peaceful and kindheartedly sympa- 
thetic. He, only he, is a righteous son of the 
Lord. 

Jf ADAGE DOEEE. 



JESUS' CHRISTIANITY 

THE religion of Jesus is not understood 
by such followers, who merely associ- 
ate with his name a lot of mediaeval dog^- 
mas and formalities of Church routine. 

The average Christian mocks God by con- 
fessing with his lips what he does not feel 
in his heart. In the Churches there is too 
much Dogmatic spleen and bitterness, too 
much form and too little spirit— too much 
vague theology and too little Godliness. 

- Self-styled Christians have for many ages 
been wandering in darkness, error and delu- 
sion concerning the true character, history, 
and doctrines of Jesus of Nazareth. 



JESUS' CHRISTIANITY BY A JEWESS 

One of the principal reasons for the fail- 
ure of Christianity in propagating the love 
message of the Gospel, is that while Chris- 
tians are called upon to uphold the very 
highest ideals as to the headship of Jesus, 
they themselves fail to live in accordance 
with Jesus' teaching. 

All earnest Christians must deplore the 
hated inconsistencies of Christendom. The 
average man or woman of to-day has no re- 
ligion, no belief in a moral order of the Uni- 
verse, no living sense of accountability to a 
Higher Power than themselves. 

Most people who attend church are full 

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of the words of religion, but utterly indiffer- 
ent to its principles. 

Nine-tenths of the Christians profess a deep 
interest in the heathen thousands of miles 
away; there they are an interesting object to 
them, but at the doors of their churches at 
home Christians avoid them. The heathen in 
Christian lands does not find Jesus' spirit of 
brotherly love. 

It is, therefore, impertinent presumption 
and impiety for the Christians to solicit 
funds to send Missionaries to different parts 
of the world to convert the heathen, with a 
Gospel which they, the Christians them- 

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selves, are so neglectful of, and so slow to 
exemplify in their own individual condnet 
and life. 

Tlie fact remains despite Christian 
teachings and Christian professions of 
faith, war and destructions, carnage and 
bloodshed, hate and intolerance, error and 
degradation thrive in many places through- 
out Christendom. 

The savage and cruel persecution of the 
Jews carried on in the name of Jesus, by 
so-called Christians outrages our common 
humanity. 

Jesus has been kept too far away from the 

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minds and hearts of his followers, who flag- 
rantly violate his teachings. It would be a 
happy day for the world if Christians were 
to practise Christianity a little more and 
cease preaching it so much. 

The world to-day is fast running to infi- 
delity, and the more the Ministers, the mere 
pulpit orators, preach fine hair-splitting defi- 
nitions, schisms, and effete dogmas without 
any real spiritual meaning, the more will in- 
fidelity come to the front— so much so, that 
the Mahometans and the Budhists have 
thought it their duty to send some of their 

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Missionaries, in order to teach Christians the 
real significance of true religion. 

Can we wonder at the heathen's lack of 
faith in the sincerity of what the Christian 
professes? Christianity must learn the con- 
crete application of truth in daily conduct, 
Right-acting and Right-living. 

The great truths of Christianity are for- 
gotten in the worship of mere ritual and 
ceremony. 

Tine Christianity is not a liturgy or a 
formula of belief, but a disposition of the 
soul. It is a life. 

Practice is that which tells; not paper 

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creeds or theory. The secret of Cliristianity 
—is helpfutaess, self-denial, service for 
others. It consists in deeds and love. How 
many so-called Christians do we daily en- 
counter whose desires are selfish ambition 
and material wealth; who profess faith— bnt 
do not possess it, who are mere living 
corpses, wandering aimlessly about— whose 
life is a religious blank— who through their 
unchristian conduct walk in darkness and 
avoid ^^Life and light.'' The fact remains, 
the test of Christianity is what a Christian 
does, not what he merely professes. ^^Soul is 
kindled by soul.'' 

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Jesus' great suffering, as he was led to tlie 
Cross, was not the fear of death, for well he 
knew that his name would live. 

He knew that many a righteous man had 
suffered death in the past, and would in the 
future, for trying to uplift his fellows. No! 
Jesus' greatest agony occurred when he saw 
through the vista of time how in succeeding 
generations all his teachings to the people, 
his principles, consisting of the purest mor- 
ality, relating to their duties in life and the 
laws of the Universe; inculcating within 
them a love for all mankind, giving them 

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the exalted Jewish conception of a Deity- 
would be misconstrued. 

Jesus saw that his death would give a new 
impulse to the dissemination of his doctrines, 
or those which would be promulgated under 
his name; how the worldly ambition of in- 
terested men with perverse ingenuity would 
rise among the people, and by leaders and 
expounders of his doctrines and intentions, 
some additions and some omissions w©uld be 
made to coerce the people. 

The dark gloomy train of fear and super- 
stition which priestcraft would prescribe. 

All this would weaken the reasoning f acul- 

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ties of the masses, and prevent them from 
acquiring just and true ideas of the teaching 
of Jesus; and how, among Ministers of other 
denominations, whose misconceptions and 
misconstructions would take place, the teach- 
ings of hate and animosity which for cen- 
turies, through ignorance and malice, would 
fall from ministerial and priestly lips, 
schisms would arise on doctrinal points, a 
few fables and a great many lies would be 
added, so that at last there would be scarce- 
ly a precept, a principle, or a fact of Jesus ^ 
doctrines that would be taught in his name 
by his successors who would call it the Gos- 

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pel: how the rage of persecution would be 
turned against his race, his own brethren 
whom he loved— the blood of his blood, the 
flesh of his flesh, his supposed followers 
would be the persecutors, disseminating 
falsehood, calumny, hatred, condemning 
the innocent, the just, and endeavoring to ex- 
terminate them with torture, sword and fire; 
millions of peaceful and innocent victims 
would be murdered and mutilated in his 
name, crafty Priests calling upon them to' 
confess that Jesus is the Holy One, for whom 
all these murderous acts were consummated 
—myriads of helpless men, women and chil- 

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dren would be racked and tortured and put 
to horrible deaths. 

All this Jesus saw with intense agony; 
then it was that he cried out with the love 
and anguish of his soul: ''Father, forgive 
them; they know not what they do.'' 

Be true to God, and you will be true to 
yourself. 

God's design for each life is that it should 
reach a holy character, do a good work in 
the world, fill a worthy place, however hum- 
ble, and fill it well, bo as to honour Him and 
bless the Universe. 

No human life has sense, —is spent worth- 

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ily except that which, has for its aim to serve 
God. 

To— Be— Just is felt to be the Supreme 
Good, or, in short. Divine. Only when a man 
stands on the height, where to him moral 
goodness is all in all, not for the sake of re- 
compense, but for the sake of righteousness, 
is there compensation and real happiness in 
his life. 

It is one's sacred duty to promote the in- 
crease and diffusion of brotherly love among 
men. 

True religion is a real life of God in the 
soul of man. 

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The revelation of God is Love, and Love 
works incessantly in behalf of the beloved. 
Our great error is that we do not care to 
realise our high calling as servants of the 
Lord, we prefer the indulgence of the lower 
self. 

God has given us His Spirit, and likewise 
love and reason to serve Him; and often in- 
stead of using them for His glory, we self- 
ishly employ them for our own earthly ends. 

God, as Father of the human race, wills 
that brotherly love shall exist on earth, 
drawing man closer to his fellow-man, and 
therefore nearer to Him. 

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It is only in serving God— that is to say, 
in doing His will by saving men from sin 
and suffering and recognising our obligation 
by helping to uplift humanity— that we ful- 
fil our mission here. 

The obstacles to practical Christianity 
come from mere professing Christians. 

The gift of oratory is no indication to a 
man's character. 

Most preachers are parrots instead of 
Prophets. 

How few of the Ministers pause to reflect 
that the church wherein the Gospel of Christ 
is supposed to be preached, is in the world 

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not to make alliance with, not to be absorbed 
by the wealthy mammon, but to influence, 
to attract, to comfort and uplift the weary 
and despairing souls, especially the poor and 
ignorant and despised. 

How few of the Ministers pause to earn- 
estly interpret to men and women the mean- 
ing of human life. Are the Ministers, the 
Leaders of Christendom, are they moved by 
the spirit of self -negation, which is the very 
essence of the ^^ Sermon on the Mount?" 
No man is ordained of God until he is ready 
to serve men. 

How many ministers do we see who 

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through their low material aims are 
unfit to be spokesmen of the great spir- 
itual truths? 

The average preacher instead of being a 
living force has faded into an emblematic 
figure at Christenings, weddings and fu- 
nerals. 

Where is the magnificent doctrine to be 
seen as taught by Moses and adopted by 
Christianity? which alas, the latter neglect 
to keep: 'Tove thy neighbor as thyself." 

Where is the constant desire and efforts 
to do good service for others, where are the 

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hourly sacrifices for the sake of serving 
God? 

In what commnnity is the doctrine of 
righteousness specially observed? 

The spirit of Mosaic Charity and generos- 
ity, aimed to avoid ostentation and needless 
humiliation to the poor. 

^^When ye reap the harvest of your land, 
thou shalt not wholly reap the comers of the 
field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings 
of the harvest.'^ ^^And thou shalt not glean 
thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather 
every grape of thy vineyard, thou shalt leave 
them for the poor and strangers.'' 

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How few Ciiristians apprehend the deep 
moral significance of some of the Old Testa- 
ment 's obligation of love to God with all the 
heart, mind, '^with all my soul," and 
strength, and through that love the deep 
sympathy and helpfulness which we owe 
mankind. 

According to the popular Christian theol- 
ogy, worship is made a mere side issue; re- 
ligion is a legal and ceremonial, rather than 
a moral and spiritual affair. 

It consists of a number of penitent hearts 
covered up in the rainbow of fashion, at- 
tending church; a dress parade, a lot of re- 

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ligious strutting peacocks, and yet profess- 
ing to be the followers of the lowly Nazarene. 
Talk of the doctrines of love, of ^^ Peace 
on earth, goodwill towards men,'' being 
preached in the churches, why, in some 
churches the cunningly devised spectacular 
display of wooden images and gory tableaux, 
established as a means by the wordly ambi- 
tious (for ^^ graft'' to confuse and to perme- 
ate and sway the masses with hatred), make 
one think of the dark chamber of horrors 
in some museum, rather than a church where 
reverence, mercy, kindness and love of Gk)d 
should be the dominant influence to reach 
mankind. 

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Paul said: ^^An idol is notMng in the 
world'' (1 Cor., viii., 4). Jesus never 
preached hatred, confusion or rebellion, but 
*Teace on earth, goodwill towards men.'* 

The warring Christians who invented 
those images and church scenery, were filled 
with dark delusions, a vast amount of mali- 
cious _ and vicious prejudices against the 
Jews, and a vast amount of desires for greed 
and plunder which they transformed into be- 
liefs. Their minds consisted of false con- 
ceptions, and misconstructions of the history 
and mission of Jesus of Nazareth. 



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The Christians say, Jesus is Divine— 'the 
only begotten Son of God.' **He came on 
earth to die for sinners.'^ 

Yet they openly, or covertly blame the 
Jews for His death. 

The prejudiced, and wrong inferences put 
up by the Gentiles who charge that the Jews 
crucified Jesus, is a historical perversion 
that has been coined into so-called Christian 
belief by slanderous repetitions. 

From a Jewish point of view, the account 
of the trial of Jesus in the New Testament 
is perfectly correct. 

The truth of the contention that the trial 

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was a mockery, the procedure not in accord- 
ance with the Jewish customs, and its deci- 
sion a travesty of justice. 

It was illegal to hold a court session of a 
criminal case outside of the ^^Lishkas Hago- 
zith." (See Tal. Sanh: Maimonides, iv. 2). 

The New Testament tells us that the trial 
was held in the house of the High Priest. 

The High Priest tearing his garment 
on a holiday was not only transgressing the 
laws of the festival, (See Lev. x6; xxl. 10) 
but what was worse, he violated the strict 
Biblical ordinances of his office. 

The charge, that it was ^^blasphemous'' for 

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Jesus to call Himself ^'Son of God" is abso- 
lutely untrue. Moses was the first to call the 
children of Israel ^^Sons of God." (Deut. 
xiv. 1). The prophets later did the same 
thing. (See Isa. Ixiii 8, i, 8; Jer. xxxi, 20; 
Hos. xi, 10). 

The Rabbis state that every good man has 
a right to call himself a Son of God. 

Humanity is God's child. 

Since the procedure, the charges and the 
conviction were not in accordance with Jew- 
ish jurisprudence, Jesus could not have been 
judged by a Jewish tribunal, but some other 
authority. 

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In fact, there was no Jewish tribunal in 
existence in Jndea at the time of Jesus. 

It was the Roman courts and laws which 
were in full force— criminals were crucified. 
The cross was a Roman instrument of tor- 
ture and death. 

That the ex-high-priest, Annias, and his 
son-in-law Caiaphas, were the prosecutors, 
is an additional proof that the mass of the 
people— the Jews were not against Jesus. 

Every tyro in Jewish history knows how 
the Jews despised this family for its Hero- 
dian sympathy. Caiaphas specially was 
looked upon as the hireling and spy of Rome. 

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Caiaphas had a personal grudge against 
Jesus for driving out the money changers 
from the Temple court. 

It was Caiaphas who first allowed these 
money changers to do business in the Temple 
for a certain sum of money each merchant 
paid him; this afforded him a large revenue 
which was wholly illegal— a form of church 
^^ graft/' 

Caiaphas was, therefore, very much in- 
censed and offended at the action of Jesus. 
He could do nothing against him openly, as 
Jesus went in and out of the Temple, ^^for 
the fear of the people' '—the Jews. He there- 

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fore had to work to condemn him in secret, 
stealthily. Caiaphas was more of a Roman 
than a Jew, more of a spy than a high-priest ; 
he was selfish and worldly and considered 
only his personal interest. 

To-day there are religious ^'grafters'' des- 
ecrating the church* 

During the examination by Pilate, the pris- 
oner said: 

*^To this end was I bom, and for this 
cause came I into the world, that I should 
bear witness unto the truth. Every one that 
is of the truth heareth my voice.'' Pilate 
replied by asking, '^What is truth?" But 

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like the prejudiced bigoted Christian of to- 
day he did not wait to hear the answer from 
the perfect Jew who had come to make an- 
swer to precisely that question. He turned 
to hear and to effectuate the voices of malice 
and ignorance. And, though Pilate gave 
sentence that Jesus should be crucified, he 
was compelled to admit that he found no 
fault in him. 

To hold the Jews responsible for the deeds 
of a traitor and a Roman spy is even a 
greater travesty of justice than that com- 
mitted by the enemies of Jesus, nineteen hun- 
dred years ago. 

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It would be just as sensible and as true 
to hold the Frenchmen of to-day responsible 
for the condemnation and execution of the 
'^Maid of Orleans/^ because there was one 
French traitor with the English who advised 
this course. 

Jesus said, ''When ye pray say, Our 
Father,'' a significance which emphasises 
at once the dignity and the divinity of man 
and suggests an everlasting bond between 
the omnipotent father and His earthly sons. 

Whether Jesus was God-man or man-God 
—he taught Love eternal in those sublime 

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doctrines— the fatherhood of Grod and the 
brotherhood of man. 

The Time Will Come When The Gentile 
Will Deem it a Great Privilege to be Known 
as a JEW,— Since God saw fit to have Jesus 
spring from that Holy race. 

The Hebrew Definition of Eeligion: ^^ Cease 
to do Evil, Learn to do Well.'^ 

Israel through its Prophets has given the 
luminous universal message of love to the 
world. Judaism is the great historical force, 
the religious crown— the power that has 
fashioned the great creeds of the world and 

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will continue moulding and influencing the 
aspirations, tlie ideas and ideals of men. 

It is the Semitic race which has the glory 
of having made the religion of humanity. 

No higher conception of God was ever 
dreamed of than that which meets us in Isa. 
vL, ^^Holy, holy, holy is the Lord;^' and the 
complement to that is the command of 
Jehovah to His people, ^^Be ye holy, for I 
am holy.'^ 

^^And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 
speak thou unto the children of Israel, 
saying, verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: 
for it is a sign between me and you 

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throughout your generations; that ye may 
know I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. 
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep 
the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath through- 
out their generations, for a perpetual 
covenant. It is a sign between me and the 
children of Israel forever." 

The Jew stands for the greatest and grand- 
est types of humanity. 

Judaism stands for all that is good and 
beautiful in the world. Judaism must ever 
remain a living faith, a soul-quickening, 
character-building vital truth; for the Jew's 

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battle-cry is : Sh'ema Yisrael! ^^ Hear Israel, 
the Lord our God is One/' 

All the inspired writers, of both parts of 
the Canon of Scripture (which, alas, is ig- 
norantly misinterpreted by the Christians,) 
were Jews. 

By the Jews the Old Testament was pre^ 
served with the utmost care, transmitted 
through successive generations with the 
most scrupulous fidelity, and to the skill and 
diligence of Jewish translators exclusively it 
is that Christianity owes the present posses- 
sion of these Sacred Writings in their origi- 
nal form, 

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The obligations^ whicli Christiaiis are un- 
der to the Jews are such as they can never 
repay. 

One good measure of the righteousness and 
civilisation of any country is its considerate 
and just treatment of the Jews. 

The Bible is the expression of the law of 
God through the Jews— they are the most 
wonderful, moral and religious race that the 
world has ever seen. 

Christianity is indebted to Israel, as the 
chosen people of God, for all the privileges 
which they now enjoy by the possession of 
the records of the Divine Revelation. 

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As for tlie Cliristiaiis persecuting the Jews 
to avenge tlie Divine Clirist's death, why, 
the very action is a burlesque and blas- 
phemy upon God's Decree. 

Jesus was bom a Jew, lived a Jew, died 
a Jew. How few ministers care to preach 
this truth about Jesus? Whatever is true is 
Divine. 

How few Christians realise that the church 
is in the world not for the purpose of perpet- 
uating tyranny and dark superstitions, not 
to sway the unreasoning masses with hatred, 
but to uplift man spiritually. 

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Jesus never meant to establish any sort of 
an ecclesiastical, authoritative machine. 

^*The Kingdom of God cometh not with 
observation/' says Jesus— that is, it is not 
from without. The Judaism of Jesus Chris- 
tianity was not to rule, but to serve. 

He distinctly repudiated every effort of 
His disciples to set up a temporal authority, 
declaring on such occasions ^'My Kingdom 
is not of this world,'' meaning a world of 
mammon *^ graft" and human authority. 

*^The Kingdom of God cometh not with 
observation"— meaning not from without; 
therefore, clay images, theatrical church scen- 

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ery and the purchasing of indulgences are 
unnecessary to spiritual development. But 
every home be sanctified— should be a church. 
*' Where two or three are met together in My 
name, there am I in the midst, '^ and that to 
bless. 

Heart-linked to noblest deed and aspiration 
is Israel's world-wide aim. 

Jesus preached nothing but Judaism— the 
religion of His birth, in its purest and sim- 
plest form, which He practised. 

Twenty centuries before Jesus, God com- 
manded Abraham to *'Walk before me!'' 
and *'Be Perfect!" And Jesus, with this 

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very command apparently in mind, directs 
his disciples to **be perfect even as their 
Father is perfect.'' 

The Golden Rule was taught explicitly by 
Eabbi Hillel in the century preceding Jesus. 
One day a man came to Hillel, and in a spirit 
of fun said, '^Can you tell me the whole Jew- 
ish law while I stand on one footf and 
Hillel said: '^Yes, perfectly well. What 
you do not want anybody to do to you, do 
not you to them. That is the whole law; 
everything else is only commentary.'' 

Jesus only quotes Hillel. He says, WHAT- 
SOEVEE YE WOULD THAT MEN 

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SHOULD DO TO YOU DO YE EVEN SO TO 
THEM: for this, he says, is the law and the 
prophets. 

Jesus is a grand manifestation of spiritual- 
ized humanity— of the love and Mercy and 
goodness of God. God in all and through all. 

Jesus' mission was to bring the joy of 
Heaven into the homes on earth. 

He said: ^^I am not come to heal the sound; 
I have been sent unto the sick.'' 

The Church of Jesus does not exconmiuni- 
cate and damn men; it saves them. *^Ye are 
the salt of the earth." If it saves, it is the 
salt; then it is the Church of Jesus. 

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Faith is the covenant between man's 
diviner part and his lesser self. 

The vital faith is the faith in the ascent 
of man. 

The supreme test is the power to lift up 
man and save him— save him soul and body, 
for the ministry of Moses and of Jesus were 
both to the body through the soul. To bring 
balm of holy compassion, joy and spiritual 
bliss, to strive for the amelioration of society 
through the exaltation of the individual. 

Most of the churches are marking time. 

But never make an inch of progress. 

God have mercy on the fanatics and relig- 

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ious cranks who have too much theology and 
not enough of faith. The age-long false 
doctrine, the Christian leaders have taught, 
to separate Jesus from his people; from that 
marvelous race of Abraham, the race of 
Moses, the race of Elijah, the race of Isaiah, 
the race of Jesus, the race most wonderful for 
its religion, its theology, its ethical life is 
not complimentary to God. 

For fifteen centuries of history God was 
dealing with the children of Israel. 

They had been selected and trained into 
righteousness— (right doing) —they had 
been saturated with God, so that out of their 

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life blossomed the Bible. But, while the 
word of God has been spoken through the 
children of Israel, when it comes to Jesus, 
suddenly the Jews are not good enough. 
The Christian leaders, the ministers, and 
priests praise the Jews, when they want to 
account for the Bible : But, what do they say 
when they want to account for Jesus? ^^He 
was a Jew, and yet not a Jew. *^He came to 
his own and they received him not,'^ for 
worldliness, Phariseeism and unspirituality 
were the three characteristics of the Jews." 
According to the Christian teachers, the 
Bible came out of a race whose three charac- 

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teristics were worldliness, Phariseeism and 
unspirituality! . 

That is what God had got them to after 
Fifteen hundred years of selected training! 

When the Christians are compelled to ac- 
knowledge the Bible to be the result of the 
Jewish race, the Jews are good enough for 
that; but, when they want to account for 
Jesus, the Jews instantly become a different 
kind of people! Instead of the exponents of 
God's righteousness, they are unspiritual, 
worldly! 

The illogical inconsistencies of the Chris- 
tian teachers' attitude towards Jesus and his 

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race are most deplorable. It seems clear that 
the Christian teachers are face to face with a 
condition like this. They want Jesus as ab- 
solute Master of the church, as absolute and 
final authority for the human soul. Yet, if 
God saw fit to have Jesus spring from the 
Jews; the Christians do not want Jesus. Yet, 
that does not derogate from the dignity, the 
beauty, the glory of Jesus. 

And yet there is not a single church in 
Christendom where Jesus, the Jew, would 

find a cordial welcome. 
How much misery and persecution would 

have been saved to mankind if the Christian 

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church ** grafters" had been satisfied with 
the Sermon on the Mount! 

It is high time for the black cataract of 
prejudice to fall from the Christian eyes, so 
that they may see the true spirit of Jesus 
and welcome him to their hearts. 

If the children of Israel were good enough 
for God to speak His word through, they are 
good enough for God to express a spiritual- 
ized ideal humanity through. 

The way of the Lord is strength to the up- 
right : but destruction shall be to the workers 
of iniquity. 

It is high time for the Christian Mission- 

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aries who attempt with bribes, to steal Jew- 
ish children's souls—to realize the RIGHTS 
of All Parents to keep their children free 
from religious influence of which they do not 
approve. 

But it is for the parents of the child to say 
what particular faith the child shall possess. 
Let us have Liberty of Conscience, so valu- 
able a blessing in society, that whatever 
favors its progress and security can scarce 
be too fondly cherished by every one who is 
a lover of human kind. 

Teaching of religious faith is the duty of 
the home. And Government, and church have 

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na business to interfere with the rights of the 
parents. 

Every Jewish child is taught reverence for 
the Almighty, Benevolence and Wisdom con- 
trolling this earth and its creatures. 

The Jewish home is the schoolhouse of all 
social virtues. For it there is no substitute. 

Israel's attitude toward God is trust, the 
love of the child; his spiritual attitude to- 
ward man, pity comprehension, forgiveness, 
tenderness; this is the divine in man; human- 
ity reaching up to God and becoming one 
with Him. 

Israel was destined to be the great mis- 

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sionary agency to the world. ^'I will bless 
thee and thou shalt be a blessing, **In thy 
seed shall all the nations of the earth be 
blessed/^ 

To Israel the Lord says, Isaiah xlix. 6. 
'^I will give thee for a light to the Gentiles, 
that thou mayest be my salvation unto the 
end of the earth. ' ' 

It is high time for the Christian Mission- 
ary to cease his false pretenses to influence 
Jewish children's souls. Let the Christian 
show his faith in the Lord, and Acknowledge 
with deep gratitude the Blessings of the im- 
mortal Ten Commandments. And practice 

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the teachings of the lowly bom devout Jew 
—Jesus of Nazareth. 

Faith without works is dead. 

'*By its fruits you shall know it.'' 

Christendom tramples underfoot Jesus' 
teachings to which they render homage in 
words. 

Only a dead creed can he embalmed in 
phrases. 

The proof of Christianity is its deeds and 
loving conduct that testify to the realities 
in which all belong to Grod, by living in a 
spirit of justice and great human love for all 
men. 

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Most Christians break up The Rock of 
Ages to fling the pieces at their brethren. 
Prejudice is one of the most insidious and 

dangerous of serpents. 

There are a lot of Parlor Christians whot 
have family prayers, and sit in the drawing 
room at night and sing: 

^^Eescue the perishing/' or 

^^0 how I love Jesus.'' 

While perverted Christians are persecu- 
ting thousands of innocent men, women and 
children. If you really love Jesus, you must 
be working Christians. If you want to **Res- 
cue the perishing" you must get out where 

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the perishing are to reach them. If you do 
not make the effort your religion is empty, 

God will not judge you so much by what 
you have done for yourselves— as by what 
you have done for others. 

One may converse for hours on the Gospel, 
or church business; or discourse with learn- 
ing and spirituality on some high doctrine-, 
or question of morals, and, nevertheless, re- 
main as far from the life of God as are the 
men of the world in their vain material pur- 
suits. If, indeed, conduct be the test of be- 
lief, then Christendom is tenanted with al- 
most insignificant exception by unbelievers. 

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The hypocrite— the colourless caricature 
of a Christian who attends church and pre- 
tends to follow Jesus, while living the life 
of an infidel— is like a cruel iron piercing the 
heart of humanity. 

We should reach out the hand of brother- 
hood to every man. It is our bounden duty 
to do what we can for the Truth. 

To many excellent people the church is 
nothing more than a holy club. But what is 
a church? The original word is **ek klesia'* 
from ek and kaleo— that is, ** called out.^^ 
The church is a body of regenerated persons 
called out of the world to perform a definite 

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service for God. It is not merely a club, or a 
social coterie, or a company of truth seekers. 

The Kingdom of God has its outward mani- 
festation in the church wherein is promul- 
gated the teachings of the Jew Jesus. 

The summary of the world ^s ethics are the 
Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the 

Mount. 

A church that realises its high Biblical 
ideal— has its spiritual nerve-cells' ramifica- 
tions in all the intellectual and social life of 
a neighborhood in which it is situated; un- 
less a church makes its influence felt by so- 

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ciety for good, to promote universal brother- 
ly love, it is no cliurcli at all. 

Real Christianity does not consist in empty 
forms, but in doing something— something 
for God and our fellow men. 

It is work for the Almighty and humanity 
that keeps the church alive, not the Nebulous 
twilight of fable— not the mere forms and 
ceremonies of religion. 

True religion must be something of daily 
service, interest, spiritual thought in our 
lives for others, if it is to be that saving faith 
which we all need. 

What we want is a real human brother- 

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hood, and a vital loving bond of unity— em- 
bodying in life the teachings of Moses and of 
Jesus— all co-operating in love and strength 
for the purpose of bringing the peace of 
Heaven into the hearts of men. 

*' Treat all men with that justice and hu- 
manity even as thou wouldst they should 
treat thee.'' 

We recognise that God's world is varied 
by hill and valley, mountain and slope, 
stream and river, yet is the sanae world. 

Every common walk of life is glorious with 
God's presence if we would but see the glory. 
We are all, no matter of what denomination, 

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worshipping the same God in our various 
ways in one grand, vast cathedral— the world 
—and the same spirit and the same nopes 
and joys are in each of our ceremonies. We 
ought to realise the sacredness of man be- 
cause he is a man. 

To grant to all that religious liberty which 
consists in the right to differ on small things, 
and yet work together as one man to ac- 
complish the great aim— the spiritual uplift- 
ing of humanity. 

Love to God and man is the teaching of 
Moses and of Jesus for the welfare of all. 

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The love of the Lord is over all His works. 
He is of infinite compassion. 

Men who behold in God a Father, and who 
love all men as the children of God and 
brothers, are in possession of life's divine 
secret of real happiness. 

True religion begets an abiding enthusi- 
asm and love for humanity; it is the symbol 
of the highest purity. Nay, more, it must be 
the very law of life, a power for man to live 
by. Regulating all by His commandments, 
walking under the guidance of the Spirit in 
the minute details of daily life. 

There are at times seemingly hard trials 

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to meet, but with tEe realisation of an ever- 
present God— one who supplies all need— all 
obstacles are met and overcome. 

To feel that you are doing something, be it 
ever so little, to make others nobler and hap- 
pier, to develop your own soul, brings content 
and adds to lifers joy. 

True religion becomes a living force in- 
fluencing for good the whole course of con- 
duct of the believer. It is God's message to- 
mankind. 

True religion is simply the spirit of God; 
the man who has tiiat spirit is God^s own 

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childi by whatever religious name he may be 
known. 

We are apt to forget the great outstaad- 
ing fact of hmnanity that all races of men 
reveal a common source. The light comes 
to them, but as through a stained-glass win- 
dow, aad is coloured by the differing media 
of human minds. But it is the divine light 
which shines through all. We go through 
many doors— they all lead into His presence. 

All are connected by the links of destiny. 

Our rule should be: In essentials unity; 
in non-essentials liberty; in all things char- 
ity. 

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The Jew stands for the love of God and 

the brotherhood of man. 

**For mere forms of faith let graceless zea- 
lots fight, 

His can't be wrong whose life is in the 
right/ ^ 

The superstition which seeks to limit the 
horizon of the human soul within the bounds 
of personal or ancestral authority has ever 
been, and is to-day, the greatest curse that 
confronts man. 

Minor differences are nothing. 

Abraham, Moses, and Jesus declared the 
family on earth to be bound together by the 
common ties of an equal brotherhood. 

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They taught the human race— all nations, 
all tribes, all kindred, all classes to look up 
to heaven and to say: **Our Father/' 

Other nations may have given culture, or 
science to the world, but Israel has given 
salvation to mankind. 

There is no religion higher than truth. 

Truth never dies; truth is life eternal— it 
is God's word. 

Moses was the greatest statesman, his wis- 
dom stands unequalled— he established a 
world's object lesson, a free government. 
He taught righteousness not only by precept 
but also by example. . 

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The government founded by Moses is the 
highest form of free government, which has 
influenced and will continue to influence for 
higher, nobler, purer living untold millions of 
lives. Governments can perpetuate them- 
selves only by being built an the righteous 
rock established by Moses, the law of man- 
hood sufferage; the law of Equality and Lib- 
erty. 

The Jews are spiritual religionists, priests 
of the world, soldiers of God, the champions 
of righteousness for humanity, preservers of 
Divine truth, teachers of those glorious doc- 
trines—the Fatherhood of God and the 

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Brotherhood of man. 

For the moral and spiritual elevation let 
us have more spirit and less forms and cere- 
monies. 

^^But one thing is needful/' 

The secret life of the soul with God makes 
the outward life true. The utmost need of 
every human being is conscious fellowship 
with GrOd; to dwell, childlike, in the joy of 
that love, and to repeat to one's soul, my 
soul, dwell thou in peace, and bless the Lord. 

The soul's communion with God are the 
precious hours of life. 

Religious freedom is the faith of the world, 

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The denial of religious liberty in the past 
has been the potent cause of the strife and 
bloodshed— a horror from which the sense 
of justice recoils, and which shrivels in its 
fires the tenderness of human hearts— that 
has disgraced the record of historic Chris- 
tianity. 

Uniformity gained by force does not mean 
unity. The belief that it does is the great 
tragic curse now hovering over Russian 
Christianity. 

The greatest need of men and women 
throughout their earthly pilgrimage is true 

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spirit in religion and perfect faith in the 
Almighty. 

We, Jew and Christian, believe in one God. 
Nine-tenths of the doctrines of onr heart- 
life are one. 

We (the Jews) believe that we have sal- 
vation only in leading an earnest, pure, and 
upright life. 

In ethics, the Jewish and the Christian 
world are one. 

Love to God and love to man embodied in 
the immortal Ten Commandments is the eth- 
ical code of Judaism and adopted by Chris- 
tianity. 

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^^0 Brother man, fold to thy heart thy 

brother! 
Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; 
To worship rightly is to love each other, 
Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a 

prayer/' 

In hours of earnest meditation God draws 
near the soul. 

God is always ready to help us, when ever 
we call upon Him, and we can say with the 
psalmist, ^^I will fear no evil, though I walk 
through the valley of the shadow of death.'' 

No teacher in the world ever said less 
about creeds than Jesus. His religion was a 

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religion of loving conduct. He did not 
preach formularies and fine definitions. Jesus 
said, *^Be ye therefore perfect, even as your 
Father which is in heaven is perfect.'' This 
perfection was Jesus' guide, and it is the 
only guide to solve the great problem of life^ 
making plain the simple rule of daily con- 
duct. As a bugle call to thought and action, 
it is echoing down the ages, voicing that gen- 
tle love of the Jew Jesus which is ever touch- 
ing human hearts, healing the multitudes of 
their distress, and binding up the broken- 
hearted with balm of holy compassion. 
Jesus was filled with a deep holy faith. He 

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was controlled in thought and action by 
Truth, the ^^God with us.'' He said, ^^I can 
of mine own self do nothing. . . . The 
Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the 
works;'' and this he said in loving humility, 
because he was fully controlled by God's 
laws. Jesus' ministery was the healing of 

man in body and soul. His burden was the 
welfare of human life. 

*^ Treat all men with that justice and hu- 
manity even as thou wouldst that they should 
treat thee." 

The obligation is founded upon a sense of 

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justice, reason and love; therefore, it is one 
of the greatest of the moral laws. 

Every word of God is pure; He is a shield 
unto them that put their trust in Him. 

The one thing needful is to da right— God 
hears the heart without the words, but He 
never hears the words without the heart. 
All good thoughts and works lead to para- 
dise. 

If all the lukewarm Christians who attend 
churches would only accept what Moses and 
Jesus preached— that we are brethren in hu- 
manity, that we are all children of the same 
God, that we should 'Uove one another'^— 

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since the God of all Nature is the God of all 
men, how happy the world would be! 

In Germany, Austria, and Russia we see 
the degrading spectacle, how a few perse- 
cuted, wretched and hounded Jews, to es^ 
cape the unjustifiable abuse heaped upon 
them, allow themselves to be baptised and 
take on the mask of Christianity, in order 
to be permitted, officially or professionally, 
to hold the same position which their Chris- 
tian fellow-citizen takes it upon himself to 
dispense. 

If, in this age of fashionable and gamh 
pretension, one wants an aristocracy of birth 

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and blood, where could he find it better than 
in the Jew? When the ancestors of those 
who withhold justice from the Jew were 
savages living in unknown islands, the Jews 
were priests in the temple of God. 

The Christian world has appropriated the 
gifts of Israel's genius, but has unnaturally 
withheld and denied its obligations to the 
Jews. 

The TRINITY of the Christian rulers who 
enforce TYRANICAL Anti-Semitic laws 
whUe POSING as Christians-is SELFISH- 
NESS, FORCE and FRAUD. 

The Grerman, Austrian and Russian Anti- 

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Semitic Codes of Law and Statutes are a 
hideous attack by usurpation upon the char- 
tered rights of humanity. 

The persecution of the Jews emanates from 
the vilest, the most pernicious system of per- 
secution that ever cursed the society of man. 

The Christians have no right to vilify and 
persecute anyone, much less an innocent, 
moral, peaceful and enlightened race, a race 
from whom Jesus himself came into the 
world. 

When we recall the heresies, horrors and 
frightful apparitions of the so-called Chris- 

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tians in the name of Jesus, humanity stands 
appalled. 

The blackest page of Christian history is 
that which records the attempt to coerce 
men into orthodoxy by physical torment. 

Anti-Semitism is the root of sheer intellec- 
tual meanness and parochial narrowness of 
vision and sentiment—** The sum of all vil- 
lainies/' 

The average Christian is still very far re- 
moved from Christianity. 

Jesus' Christianity consists not in Church 
persecution, routine forms, and senile dog- 
mas, but in deeds of self-sacrifice and love— 

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these show the heart's allegiance to the re- 
ligion of Jesus. 

Christendom has sinned, and sinned griev- 
ously, against the Jews. 

The church '* grafters '* who continue to 
preach on an Easter Morning to their congre- 
gation the slanderous historical perversion— 
and the damnable heresy that the Jews cruci- 
fied Christ, and then immediately thereafter 
proclaim the glory of the resurrection, run af- 
ter Jesus nat for the Miracles, but for the rev- 
enue-, the fish and the loaves. 

How irreconcilable is perverted Christian- 
ity, with the teaching of Jesus, ''By this 

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shall all men know that ye are my disciples, 
if ye lave one to another/' 

As we read the history of Christianity, of 
the gentle character of Jesus, of His teach- 
ings of Peace and Love, His telling the peo- 
ple to be kind even to their enemies, and then 
read the history of Christendom with its 
prejudice, its bitterness, its hatred, its in- 
quisitions, its tortures of innocent men, wo- 
men, and little children and all the fiendish 
quarrels of the past, we feel as though we 
were reading the records of the cruel doings 
of the insane! 

True Christianity must hold a General In- 

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quest into the abuses, must make a determ- 
ined Crusade against the Christian persecu- 
tor and destroy, once for all, the leprous, in- 
famous product of ancient insensate sec- 
tarian hate! the foul despicable offspring of 
human savagery. 

What is bad and wicked has no endurance. 
It may tower mountain high, it is destined 
to crumble. 

So-called Christians may rob Jews of their 
money, their estates, their citizenship rights; 
but they cannot rob the Jew of his great an- 
cestry and sacred heritage— Judaism leads 
men to righteous living and to God 

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The Jew has a task to fulj&l for all man- 
kind! 

It's the Jew's strength that in his essence 
he alone among men is changeless. ''The 
wicked are overthrown aad are not, but the 
House of the Righteous shall stand. '* 

Empires crumble into ruin, civilisations 
flourish, and are dissipated like dust on the 
wind. By all the links of prophecy, the Jew 
goes on living when other types rise, fall and 
fade; despite the tragic folly of the Jew- 
hater, the Jew is indestructible— Israel has 
in trust the precious treasures for all human- 
ity. To himself the Jew has ever been an 

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incarnation of Destiny and Law; and his di- 
vine intuition of himself enables him to en- 
dure the hatred of the intolerant bigoted ig- 
norant of to-day with the same absolute pa- 
tience which he showed in mediaeval times. 

To-day, not one of the nations who openly 
or covertly persecute the Jew or deprive him 
of his rights, has a tithe of the basis or pros- 
pect of the continuance of Israel. 

The Jew, placed by God here from the be- 
ginning with a task which embraces all peo'- 
ples, creeds, and classes and races, will not 
leave the stage of history before his great 

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missian for the spiritual uplifting of a high- 
er humanity is accomplished. 

The blood thirsty hate the upright. 

The mock Christians, through malign ig- 
norance, sneer, taunt and persecute us for 
being a scattered race. Israel has always 
been the most wonderful nation, but the Jews 
were never intended to be a political nation; 
the Chosen People of God have a higher mis- 
sion to perform; not for rule and conquest 
was Israel destined by the Supreme; not that 
Israel might be one among many nations, 
like unto them and of their kind, was Israel 
chosen; but: ^^Ye shall be unto Me a king- 

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dom of priests, and a holy nation.'* This ia 
our appointed destiny— to be the priests and 
teachers of the world. 

That is why the Jews are scattered in 
every part of the habitable globe, and are in- 
corporated with other nations, and shall be 
till the day of judgment, so that all nations^ 
and mankind throughout the world, shall be 
spiritually uplifted, and blessed through Is- 
rael's teaching. 

The immortal Ten Commandments— The 
law of holiness is the law of joy. 

No glory is half so great as that which 
springs from mental and moral grandeur. 

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Jesus said, ^'Be ye therefore perfect, even 
as your Father which is in heaven is per- 
fect/' 

Christianity, in this enlightened age, more 
than ever must repent and accept the truth. 

Christians claim to believe in Jesus, but 
have no room in their hearts for him. 

The Christian persecutor is an abomination 
to men and to the Lord. 

Why do the earnest Christians ignore the 
glaring facts of ^^ man's inhumanity to man'' 
which is daily causing thousands of misled 
and ignoraat Christian souls to fall to ruin? 

There is an old translation of Isaiah's 

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prophecy (Chapter ix., 7) which reads— 
^^His Kingdom shall have no frontier." 

Yet Christian people — through a vast 
amount or race-hatred against Jews, a vast 
amount of foolish and vicious prejudices 
which they transform into beliefs, and con- 
sider as so many facts— are constantly rais- 
ing through their own un-Christian conduct, 
frontiers to the Kingdom of God. 

Christianity is indebted to the Jews for all 
the privileges which they now enjoy. 

The Jews' efforts have ever been to benefit 
and uplift humanity. 

The Jews have been the means of civilis- 

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ing the world, giving it poetry, faith, charity, 
religion— in short, a knowledge of the living 
God. And what does the Christian in his ig- 
norance do in return for all these splendid 
gifts? Persecutes the Jew— his benefactor. 

Ye have not the spirit of Jesus among you. 

It is a lamentable commentary upon orga- 
nised Christian religion in England and 
America that the oppressed Jews have been 
practically unaided by the churches in their 
helpless, defenceless condition against the 
Christian persecutors. 

Day by day the unjust persecution of the 
Jews in Eussia goes on, and the ministers do 

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not denounce the monstrous wrong. The 
cries of the widows and orphaned children 
are heard incessantly, but the ministers ig- 
nore the outrage, deem it of insufficient hu- 
man interest to persistently comment upon it 
in their pulpits. 

Christendom tramples underfoot Jesus' 
Principles to which they give praise in 
words. 

The Christian church can eradicate perse- 
cution, if it will, by practising its own relig- 
ion and following the teachings of the Jew 
Jesus! 

If the Christian church would sincerely 

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proclaim anti-Semitism irreligious and un- 
charitable persecution would end. 

The obligations under which Christians are 
to the Jews are such as they can never repay. 

It therefore behooves you, out-and-out, 
through and through, Christians, you who 
preach"* of Jesus' love, to devise ways and 
means for reaching the Eussian persecutors. 

The surest way to deal with these Chris- 
tian monsters, who are day by day and year 
by year sowing the seeds of dissension and 
strife and hatred throughout the world, is 
by showing the indignation and horror in 
which the Christian persecutor is held by 

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every righteous Christian and civilised na- 
tion. 

An enlightened public opinion must be 
focussed on, and protest against their ne- 
farious actions, in order to purify the heart, 
cleanse the life and expurgate all hypocrisy 
and sham from these misguided men. It is 
time for the Nation to act. 

Let the Search-light of Justice awake so^ 
called Christians to a knowledge of their low 
spiritual condition, and degradation, that 
they may emancipate themselves from the 
mental slavery under which they have ex- 
isted for so many centuries past. 

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ye earnest Christians, reclaim the sin- 
ners, save them, help them to step out of 
darkness and iniquity into a wonderful ex- 
perience of God's presence and power, and, 
for the love of the Lord, Christianize these 
masked followers of Jesus. 

It is high time to sweep the cohweh of 
superstition and tyranny from their mali- 
cious brains, allow the true light of reason 
and kindness of heart to absorb their big- 
oted minds and actions, so that no frontier 
shall debar them from entering the Kingdom 
of God. 

Given vision and life, the timid Christians 

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must take a bold stand and enter upon the 
fields opened out before their eyes. They 
pray for, and make efforts to convert, the 
heathen abroad— they must first endeavour 
to convert and cleanse the leprous Christians 
at home. The Voice of Humanity must com- 
pel Christian Russia to give her Jewish sub- 
jects their full Civic Eights. 

Every Christian partakes, every one con- 
fesses the existence of the foul pest, yet none 
feels himslf accountable, individually respon- 
sible. 

There are a lot of namby-pamby Chris- 
tians who hold a part of the truth and let the 

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rest go; they lack the courage of volunteer 
effort and spiritual adventure. 

Are you, as an individual, doing your 
duty? Are you as an independent human 
being", trying to work out your own Salva- 
tion, through your individual efforts, aiding 
and inspiring your fellows to rare self-denial 
and a high sense of public duty? 

The world always erects barriers to stay 
the march of truth. 

Thoughtless people instinctively rebel 
against the overthrow of established condi- 
tions, because the world as a whole is men- 
tally lazy, and refuses to think in any direc- 

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tion different from the one in which it oper- 
ates. From time immemorial leaders of 
truth who endeavored to uplift their fellow- 
men have been stoned, imprisoned, crucified, 
or otherwise maltreated. 

It too often happens that the mob spirit 
which controls the unthinking world seeks 
to sacrifice the ariginal thinker and benefac- 
tor. 

The prophets mentioned in the Canon- 
ical writings were slandered, hated, stoned, 
and murdered. 

Path-finders, like Columbus, Galileo, and 
others, were not popular, on the contrary they 

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were threatened, jeered at, and imprisoned. 

People as a rule, ignore the wrongs about 
them. 

The Jews have made every effort to benefit 
mankind, and how has Christendom in its ig- 
norance requited the obligation? With in- 
gratitude, prejudice, hatred, and persecution. 

The discovery of America by Columbus, 
and the earliest expeditions, are intimately 
connected with the Jews. 

Columbus received great assistance from 
astronomical works prepared by Jews, and 
from scientific instruments of which Jews 
were the inventors. 

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The mercliaiits Luis de Santangel and Gar 
briel Sanchez— both Jews, urged upon Queen 
Isabella the importance of the plans of Col- 
umbus, and advanced the necessary money 
for the first and second voyages. At least 
five persons of Jewish blood accompanied 
Columbus upon his first voyage. 

Luis de Torres, a Jew in the capacity of 
interpreter, is said to have been the first 
European to tread the American soil. 

At a period when Washington was facing 
imminent defeat Haym Solomon the Jew 
gave him great assistance by advancing 
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, be- 

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sides contributing liberally of his means to 
sustain the men engaged in the struggle for 
independence at a time when the sinews of 
war were essential to success. Not a penny 
of the large sums advanced has ever been re- 
paid to the heirs of the philanthropist and 
patriot who so generously aided the Revolu- 
tionary cause, and the fact is but another 
instance of the ingratitude of Christian gov- 
ernments. (See Hon. Simon Wolf's Patriot, 
Soldier and Citizen.) 

Do the Christians in their daily conduct 
act as if they believed in Jesus? The Chris- 
tians say Jesus is Divine; if so, what are 

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these lukewarm Christians doing to extend 
His teaching? 

There is always a tendency, when basking 
in the warmth of worldly prosperity, to be 
self-centered: to rest satisfied with a passive 
attitude, to settle down in quietness, to mag- 
nify the value of caution. 

There are thousands of Cristians negative- 
ly good, whose neutrality is treachery. It is 
not the colorless inanities, the quietists that 
count, but the aggressively good. 

People should be condemned for not doing 
positive good. It is impossible for a person 
culpably indifferent not to do harm. 

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And now, men and women of Christen- 
dom, is the persecution of the Jews to be 
apathetically viewed, apologised for, and 
passed over in silence? 

Are we to wait for another holocaust of 
victims before the law and the public correc- 
tive opinion which is behind the law move 
in the matter? 

But what can any individual do? 

You, every man and woman ought to take 
active, vital interest in uprooting the lep- 
rous oppressors; you must act as befits a true 
lover of humanity. 

All the ingenious souls, who feel within 

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themselves the irrepressible strivings of a 
noble aim, every heart pulsating for justice 
and human liberty, must boldly denouncci, 
and condemn the Christian persecutor. 

Say not that you have neither authority 
nor eloquence, nor fortune nor any other 
means in influencing your fellow-men. You 
have the most powerful of all means of influ- 
ence at your disposal.— You can help create 
individual and public condemnation of evil. 

The tendency of race hatred must be erad- 
icated by educating the will to Love. 

It is in the power of the least of us to be 
happy and to make others so. 

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The evil-doer fears nothing so much as he 
fears publicity. A vigorous publicity is a 
blazing, blighting sun to the workers of ini- 
quity. 

We can all be missionaries spreading the 
light of righteousness (right doing) through- 
out the world; ^^cast thy bread upon the wa- 
ters and in God's own time it shall be re- 
turned to thee/' 

The human-race's progress is made better, 
not only by the efforts of the great heroes, 
but also by the aggregate of the tiny efforts 
of each honest worker. 

Grod is calling us to go forward, to strive 

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for the amelioration of society through the 
exaltation of the individual. 

The Christian persecutor is the greatest 
criminal offender against the laws of broth- 
erly love. 

There is one thing that every Christian 
can do— he can see to it that he feels and acts 
rightly. If you have not much light, walk 
up to the standard of what you have, and 
you are sure to have more. Do your share. 
Be a factor in the life of the world. 

Character is the blossom and fruit which 
tells the nature of the tree— character leads 
the supereminent in man. 

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In all ages poet and sa»ge have praised the 
truthful character, and sincerity of noble pur- 
pose ever has been the secret of great achieve- 
ment. 

A man of noble character is a blessing to 
his fellows. He is courage for the timid, 
strength for the weak, purpose for the ir- 
resolute, and example for the good. 

If all would do their little part, just their 
best, even if it isn't much, just as a blade of 
grass does, the world would be a better, and 
a happier place. 

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence 
encircles every human being; and the man or 

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woman who feels strongly and justly on the 
great interests of humanity, is a constant 
benefactor to the human race. See then to 
your sympathies and actions in this matter! 
Are they in harmony with the teachings of 
Jesus? 

True religion is not a contraction; it is an 
expansion. It is a sense of obligation to 
others. People keep their religion too 
guarded, too boxed up. 

The average Christianity one meets with 
too often savours of a class or a club, rather 
than a religion for the uplifting of mankind. 

^^ Honour thy father and thy mother; that 

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thy days may be long in the land which the 
Lord thy God giveth thee/' 

The Godlessness of the present era is clear- 
ly evidenced by the lack of deference and rev- 
erence upon the part of the youth of today, to- 
wards their elders. 

The essential insincerity of the greater 
part of what is called ' 'society life" is recog- 
nized by most men and women, yet few have 
the moral courage to acknowledge it openly 
or to apply a remedy to it. 

' 'Dare to be your best self" is a precept not 
often followed. Because it is not always con- 
sidered diplomatic. 

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** Social lies'' so closely are interwoven 
with the texture of our daily life that the or- 
iginal pattern of character often hardly is rec- 
ognizahle. Manners, sentiments, so-called con- 
victions, religious, political, or moral, are 
mere imitations of other men's actions or say- 
ings rather than the result of original and 
genuine effort on our part. 

Selfishness is not dictated by the high sen- 
timents of human nature; unselfishness in 
our daily life and conduct is the spark from 
Heaven which illuminates the soul. The 
day of small things is not to be despised; 

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kindly and loving deeds are the prayers of 
the heart, breathed into the heart of God. 

How few, '.Christians measure their con- 
duct not by the world's ideals, but by Jesus? 

The Christians say Jesus is Divine, what 
are they doing to extend His teachings? 

All churches everywhere which believe in 
the soul's liberty and loyalty to God, must 
loudly and earnestly denounce the Christian 
persecutor. 

If the Christians are true followers of 
Jesus, they will lift their voices in this en- 
lightened century against the outrageous 

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persecution now being waged in Christian 
Russia. 

The time has come when the strength of 
the Christian Churches must be directed in 
reclaiming and saving their Russian Chris- 
tian brethren from damning their souls. 

United effort of all churches, united senti- 
ment, deep earnestness, and concentrated ac- 
tion is necessary to rid mankind of this un- 
christian plague. 

In this age a so-called Christian Govern- 
ment which persecutes the Jews and silences 
the human voices and tearful pleas of the 
mothers and wives of its people, and which 

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crushes to earth public corrective opinion, is 
indeed deserving of universal condemnation. 
Let there be an end of the iniquity that has 
made the hells, the fagots, the inquisitions, 
the bitterness and hate of the Christendom 
of the Past. 

The false Christians must be exposed to 
the fierce light of truth regardless of conse- 
quences. 

It is by recognising facts rather than ig- 
noring them, that true progress is accom- 
plished. 

From Jesus' lips— gentle with a thousand 
messages of love— there poured that terrific 

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arraignment of the Scribes and Pharisees 
— ^^Ye hypocrites! how can ye escape the 
damnation of hellT' 

What would Jesus say to the Russian 
Christians of today with all their mock cere^ 
monies and make-pretence belief? 

Jesus denounced the Scribes and Phari- 
sees. Christianity must recognise the horri- 
ble facts and must denounce those spurious 
Christians. 

In humanity's name, Christianity must 
rise in its righteous indignation and rid it- 
self of this Russian pestilence. 

The essential thing in government is the 

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securing justice and order. Christianity must 
lay its hands upon politics, which is but 
religion in action. 

It must know that the State is a truly di- 
vine institution of the people, which they 
use in their pursuit of righteousness. 

It is the horrible tragedy of history that 
the Christian Nations have taken the Bible 
and spurn its source— the Jews. 

The benighted Christians must face the 
Light of Justice and acknowledge the Truth. 
The only way for Christendom to atone for 
this iniquity is to teach Christian children 

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the truth— that Jesus was born a Jew, lived 
a Jew and died a Jew. 

Nine-tenths of the Christians shun to *' de- 
clare the whole counsel of (xod," beca^use the 
message of Jesus was humility and love. 

Will Christians love the Jews the better 
henceforth for having given to the world 
Jesus? If not, why not? 

It is useless for the Christians to enter the 
church to worship Jesus the Jew, bom of 
Jewish flesh, when on their exit they vilify 
and stone Jesus' brethren, the Jews. 

The Russians have canonised the old Jew- 
ess, Ann, the mother of Mary, and made the 

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dead Jewess their great Patron-Saint, yet 
tliey hound and outrage the living ones! 

We hear of the Eussian Czar proposing to 
the powers a peace treaty to the world, yet 
ignoring the monstrous anti-Semitic code of 
laws, and the hideous Christian persecution 
against the heavily tax-paying Jewish citi- 
zens in his own kingdom. Words are good 
when backed by deeds, and only so. 

The fact remains that a Christian's reli- 
gion is what a Christian does, not what he 
merely professes! 

Perverted Christianity practises intoler- 
ance, hatred, cruelty and injustice. 

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It does not take mucli observation to see 
the splendid hypocrisy of Christendom by 
comparing their ^'wordly ethics with the 
ideals of the Sermon on the Mount.'' 

Jesus' Sermon contains a series of ideals 
Here are some: 

The ideal of self-sacrifice. 

The ideal of humility. 

The ideal of turning the other cheek ^the 
absence of revenge). 

The ideal of loving an enemy. 

The ideal of sexual purity, in thought, as 
well as in action. 

Pure Christianity teaches simple Judaism, 

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love, humility, kindness, justice, peace and 
good-will. 

Why does Christian belief not influence 
Christian conduct? The bulk of the Chris- 
tians believe that Jesus* doctrine of non-re- 
sistance to evil is impracticable and do not 
even attempt to carry it out in their lives. 
Yet this was the preachment of their great 
teacher. This was his peculiar contribution 
to ethical thought. 

Do Christians believe in Jesus' Christian- 
ity as judged by what they practise? No. 

Sin is a reproach to any people. But Right- 
eousness exalteth a nation. 

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Let us hope that in the near future, the 
Christian Church shall depend neither on 
darkness, dread, terror, barbarous relics, dead 
men's bones, and ignorance for its continu- 
ance, nor on persecution for its progress, but 
on deeds of mercy and brotherly love. 

^^For what doth the Lord require of thee, 
but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk 
humbly with thy God."— Mieah. 

It is high time for the Christian conscience 
to free itself from the spirit of persecution. 

Every principle of right and justice de- 
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cerous anti-Semite and render justice to the 
Jew, humanity's benefactor. 

If Jesus were here in your midst, and wit- 
nessed your persecution of his people, he 
would in his righteous indignation say unto 
you, as he said to the Scribes and Pharisees 
— '*Ye hypocrites, ye whited sepulchres, 
beautiful without, but full of dead men's 
bones and all uncleanness within. 0, gen- 
eration of vipers, who hath warned you to 
flee from the wrath to come?'^ It is to those 
neutral spectators, the priests and bishops 
and cardinals— the great churchmen of to- 
day, that Jesus would thus speak — for 

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quietly countenancing evil, without raising 
their Christian voices against the outrag- 
eous tortures perpetrated upon innocent vic- 
tims in his name. 

0, Church of Jesus, read the signs of the 
times, there must be an awakening to duty 
and a stimulus to service such as the world 
has rarely seen. See to it that ye have the 
spirit of him whose Kingdom is yet to come 
and whose will is to be ^^done on earth as it 
is done in Heaven.'^ 

It is the so-called Christians, the apa- 
thetic *' religious'' people, whose culpable 
passive attitude and indifference of the cruel 

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wrongs toward a moral, peaceful, and en- 
lightened race, fills the world with horror, 
and engenders more scepticism among the 
heathen, and does more to retard the spread 
of Jesus' teaching than all other things put 
together. 

The average Christian heart is ceasing to 
be dogmatic, but it has not ceased to be de- 
vout. 

The average pulpit through its ignorance, 
its misinterpretations, its vagaries, does 
not glow with the fire of true religious spir- 
ituality. 

Crude, vague and pitiless theology is 

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doomed. Modern intelligence will not con- 
sent to be cramped by the stereotyped forms 
of words that rattle like dry bones, by the 
nebulous assurances, and conventional dis- 
cussions that win no entrance to the soul. 

So long as the Christian ministers will 
take refuge in church routine, and will con- 
tinue to shut off from their view and hear- 
ing the outrageous persecutions against the 
Jews, so long will the decay of faith spread 
throughout Christendom; the belief of Chris- 
tianity fades in the relentless light of mod- 
em Christian persecution. 

Life can but come from life, and the true 

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spiritual vitality that might be a great force 
in Christendom, perishes nnder the cold 
touch of the theological dead hand. 

So-called Christians have been guilty be- 
fore God, in their monstrous system of in- 
justice, greed, and plunder that lies at the 
foundation of persecuting the Jews; and the 
Christian Church has a heavy account to 
answer. 

The Christian persecutor must kneel and 
repent at the mercy seat of God, and pray 
to be forgiven. Christianity means com- 
munion with and obedience to a heavenly 
Father. 

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^^Seek ye the Lord while He may bo 
found.'' 

That which raises a country, that which 
strengthens a country, and that which dig- 
nifies a country;— that which spreads her 
power, creates her moral influence, and 
makes her respected and submitted to, bends 
the heart of millions, and bows down the. 
pride of nations to her— the instrument of 
obedience, the fountain of supremacy, the 
true throne, crown and sceptre of a nation; 
—this aristocracy is not an aristocracy of 
blood, not an aristocracy of fashion, not an 
aristocracy of talent only; it is an aristoc- 

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racy of character. That is the true heraldry 
of man. 

It is neither power nor pride that exalteth 
a nation, but righteousness. 

ye would-be Christians, for the love of 
God drop your barbarous relics, your sacred 
spasms and all the mediaeval mischievous 
dogmas and vague theology which fill the 
world with barren disputes. 

Leave the gloom of hatred; come out from 
your ''whited sepulchres'' into the glorious 
sunlight of justice and love. 

Lift up yonr hearts for divine guidance 
to God, whose love and mercy is ever with 

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US, and whose great light floods our dark- 
ened sonls with understanding when we 
earnestly seek Him. 

It is not form or belief bnt life that is the 
vital thing in the Christian faith. 

Where there is no vision, the people perish. 
Because ye have not the spirit of Jesus among 
you. 

ye Christless Christians, a day of grace 
is yet held out to you. 

It is only in self-denial, sacrifice, renun- 
ciation that spiritual life begins. 

^^Seek ye the Lord while He may be 
found. ^^ And bear in mind that not by com- 

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bining to countenance injustice and cruelty, 
and making a common capital of hatred^ 
greed and sin, is mankind to be saved; but 
by repentence, justice, deeds of mercy and 
love:— only by such acts can they, the spu- 
rious Christians, become real followers of 
Jesus. 

The church of the past is undergoing ^^a 
sea-change into something rich and strange 
—rich in truth, in promise for the future. 

The church in building her loftiest struc- 
tures of hope— is about to receive a larger 
revelation from God— it will be forced to an 
unfolding of divine truth for the develop- 

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ment of sanctities of the spiritual life, such! 
as has never been heard of or thought of in 
all the world. 

Through increasing knowledge and good- 
ness throughout Christendom, the Christians 
will welcome and love the Jews with a sacred 
love— as the natural result of a better under- 
standing; this will not mean the destruction 
of the Christian religion, but its perfection. 

THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THE 
FOLLOWERS OP JESUS WILL DEEM 
IT A PRECIOUS PRIVILEGE TO BE 
KNOWN AS A JEW. 

The question of the relationship of the 

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Jewish race to the world is fraught with tre- 
mendous purpose, as is seen in all the 
churches as symbolised by the enthronement 
of Mary the Jewess and Jesus the Jew. 

The Judaism of Jesus Christianity is love, 
helpfulness, service for others. We are proud 
of our race for what it has done for the re- 
generation of mankind. The Jews are the 
grand examples of the world, for ** blessed 
are the Peacemakers/* 

The only creed needed in this world to 
save it to-day is that which Moses and Jesus 
preached— ^^ Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
God with all thy heart, and thy neighbour 

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as thyself.'' Teach this to the people by 
word and deed— that is all the creed neces- 
sary to formulate the great love of God. 

Nine-tenths of the Christians need regen- 
eration; they must face the light of justice, 
they must acknowledge and willingly accept 
the truth. They must let the sun of right- 
eousness enter their souls. 

The best interests of humanity lie in a con- 
certed and determined effort to extinguish 
the leprous Christian persecutor. 

Christianity, as we have it in Russia, is a 
positive imposition and blasphemy of the 
truth. 

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Jesus told Nicodemus—*^ Verily, verily, I 
say unto thee, unless a man be bom again of 
the truth, bom of the Spirit, he cannot enter 
the kingdom of God/' 

^^Now is the accepted time/' 

The erring past must be remedied in the 
present age. 

It is high time for the perverted Chris- 
tians to turn away the guards of private ex- 
ploitation, and break the shackles of evil 
custom and most pernicious prejudices, let 
the degradation of mere worldly ambition be 
swept from their hearts, that they may give 
up their delusions and accept the truth which 

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is in conformity with the principles of nature 
and the teachings of Moses and of Jesus. 

How precious is the truth divine, 

By inspiration given; 
Bright as a sun its doctrines shine, 

To guide our souls to Heaven. 

We are but moulded thoughts— our acts 
and lives the casts of mental images. 

Social life and work if not animated by 
earnest effort and high endeavour is dead 
and despicable. 

Let the passive men and women of Chris- 
tendom beware lest they are satisfied with 
a mere seeming of things. Too much caution 
degenerates into cowardice. 

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Eeligion is a practical thing if it is any- 
thing at all. 

The world's victories, its great discov- 
eries, its great inventions, have been the out- 
come of daring. Similarly the growth of 
great spiritual forward movements has come 
when men received a fresh waft of life, with 
inspiration for a wide vision and courage to 
enter the Master's service. 

Christianity must put its hand on the right 
lever to accomplish Jesus' mission— the right 
lever is the individual soul. We improve 
not by belabouring the evil in us, but by edu- 
cating the good. Every worker in the vine- 

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yard of Jesus has a sacred obligation to go 
to the root of the evil of hatred, and kill it; 
to begin at the bottom and root it out. 

Ye who love justice and humanity must 
come forward and lend a helping hand. Let 
every man speak his mind boldly and the 
truth will soon have such a multitude of wit- 
nesses that all Christendom and the Church 
must hear. 

All the thunders of public condemnation 
and individual contempt should be hurled at 
this most horrible plague, the Christian per- 
secutor. What crime greater than these 



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political and religious criminal offenders 
against the laws of brotherly love? 

The Christian must not allow Russia to 
linger in the region of nightmare and chaos. 

That the welfare of millions of innocent 
Jews should hang upon the will, whim and 
word of a single individual— -and this priest- 
guarded individual hidden under the crafty 
PobiedonostsefF system, walled away from 
the real knov/ledge of his people's condition 
and natural wishes— is an anachronism of 
such tragic proportions that it leads to hid- 
eous massacres of the confiding and innocent 
victims. 

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The persecution of the Jews is a cry to 
every creature, to every family, to every 
church, and it is the Christian's solemn duty 
to make such persecution utterly impossible. 

Christian Russia, with its hatred, hyp- 
ocrisy, intoUerance and cruelty is covered 
with Infamy of physical torment. 

Why should the zealous Christians of this 
enlightened century hestitate in their duty 
to Christianize the so-called Christians in 
Russia? 

AVork for God, despite the difficulty of pro- 
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■ ■■■■■■ ■ I ■ I i»i I ■ 11 I 

lines, away from the beaten paths, to scat- 
ter Jesus' messages of love. 

Spurious Christianity worships the form 
and not the truth— the letter and not the 
spirit of Jesus. 

In Europe, in this the twentieth century 
of civilisation, we see the degrading, mon- 
strous and hideous spectacle of the terrible 
and bloody Christian attack upon the inno- 
cent Jewish families at Kishineff. 

No language can depict the awful horrors 
of those goulish Russian anti-Semites. 

Everything that is contrary to Jesus ^ 
teaching has been perpetrated in his name. 

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Men have been robbed and then murdered, 
their tongues cut from their mouths, their 
eyes torn from their sockets, women old and 
young have been brutally outraged and 
killed, children torn limb from limb— all 
these hideous and atrocious acts committed 
by Christians so-called, and under a Chris- 
tian government. 

What is amazing is that all these fiendish 
orgies should be perpetrated under the lime- 
light of civilisation, in the presence of the 
great Christian powers, each one of which 
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word, to stop the whole saturnalia of besti- 
ality and bloodshed. 

If the Christians everywhere do not loudly 
protest, condemn and dissociate themselves 
from the leprous taint of the Christian per- 
secutor, they, the Christians, write their hu- 
manity down a sham and their civilisation 
an organised hypocrisy. 

The religious bigotry that has fostered 
the anti-Semites, and whose existence is wil- 
fully ignored by the churches, is a fire which 
consumes manhood and justice, and mercy, 
and every quality that raises a human being 
above the level of a ravening wild beast. 

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Again and again is Humanity put to shame 
by the hideous work of the unspeakable anti- 
Semite. 

The deeds committed by the Russian fiends 
at Kishineff shook the civilised world with 
horror. Revelation followed revelation, but 
the Christian world greeted it with a storm 
of unbelief, of virtuous denials, a few apolo- 
gies, and then— lapsed into silence. After 
Kishineff followed Homel, and after Homel, 
Moghilief, and then Bialystok. 

The persecuted Jews in Eussia demand 
immediate help; they have a right in the 
name of disgraced Christianity, and of out- 

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raged humanity, to resound with impassioned 
demands for retribution upon the religious 
bigoted and political murderers who style 
themselves Christians. 

The most wicked wrongs this World has 
ever witnessed, Wrongs that have cried out 
to Heaven for relief have been those wrongs 
that have been inflicted upon innocent men, 
women and little children by so-called Chris- 
tians in the name of religion. 

Do the Christian nations realise what a 
miserable part they have played in this horri- 
ble tragedy of Christian persecution? 

They that forsake the law praise the 

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wicked: but such as keep the law contend with 
them. 

The mighty Cliristian nations stand aloof, 
inactive, pandering to international * 'eti- 
quette'' of Nations, silent witnesses, while 
infamous intolerant Christians so-called are 
slaughtering thousands of innocent defense- 
less Jews. 

Is it the Barter of Flesh, and Blood and 
souls for money to uphold commercial inter- 
ests, that muzzles the Christian govern- 
ments? These human outrages are a dis- 
grace to Christianity and a damning blot 
upon the Christian governments. 

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The plea of religions belief should no 
longer be accepted as an excuse for crime, 
a crime which is a crime against all human- 
ity. 

The high tribunal of the conscience of 
the Christian powers must compel Christian 
Russia to give her heavily taxed Jewish sub- 
jects their full Civic Rights. 

The conscience of the civilised world must 
compel brutal Russia by the force and pres- 
sure of humanity to listen to the voice of 
Justice. 

This race prejudice is not a Jewish prob- 



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lem, but rises with those who hold it against 
the Jews, 

It is no longer a Jewish, but a Christian 
question, since those calling themselves 
Christians are guilty of persecution and mur- 
der. 

If the Christian Leaders of the different 
governments who are POSING as Christians, 
but not acting with the TRUE CHRISTLY 
SPIRIT silently encourage the loath- 
some Christian persecutors, the High Court 
of Public Opinion must boldly denounce them 
to the world. 

Justice cannot be stoned to death. 

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As for the men that say, the United States 
Government hasn't the authority to abolish 
the Christian persecution of the Jews, they are 
either fools or knaves or a combination of 
both. 

If the government of the United States has 
the power to forbid *' CRUEL and unusual 
punishment/' it certainly has the power to 
SUSPEND friendly relations with CHRIS- 
TIAN TYRANNICAL RULERS-and FOR- 
BID official RECOGNITION in the United 
States of the Embassadors representing IN- 
F A MO US JEW- BAITING GOVERN- 
MENTS. 

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''The Constitution of the United States is a 
law for rulers and people, equally in war and 
peace, and covers with the shield of ITS 
PROTECTION all classes of men at all times 
and under all circumstances/* 

Of what use are the armaments, with which 
the Christian world has equipped itself at a 
cost of hundreds of millions for the defence 
of civilisation, when such savagery rides un- 
hridled, and revels in the midst of Chris- 
tianity? 

That is the question which the Christian 
world, with ever-increasing shame, has to an- 
swer! 

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With the fearless courage of an American 
woman, I call upon the righteous men and 
women of all lands, to create a universal, and 
so vehement a protest, as to make such Chris- 
tian outrages utterly impossible. 

Every time Russia has insulted the Ameri- 
can people by refusing to recognize the 
American Passports because the bearers 
thereof were American Jews, the American 
Government has been a tacit party to an In- 
ternational wrong! 

Is not religious liberty more important to 
mankind than any commercial opportunity? 



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How long will the CRIME of CHRISTEN- 
DOM continue to OUTRAGE MANKIND? 

Many sincere Christians while pained and 
shocked, at the terrible persecutions inflicted 
upon Russion Jews, remain inactive, and are 
too timid, to lift their voice in the cause of 
humanity. 

It is high time for the Nation to act. 

The doom of Eussia's Criminal Oligarchy 
is sealed. 

Russia is summoned before the bar of civ- 
ilisation. 

Our International Treaties must become 
a living force. 

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The Christian powers can no longer stand 
silently by and permit the horrible, atro- 
cious, anti-Semitic scenes of the Christian 
persecutor to be enacted; the Christians can- 
not evade their responsibility. 

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, be- 
holding the evil and the good. 

God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay 
at the end of every day's evil deeds, or month, 
or year, but remember He pays in the end. 

It is high time that the heads of the differ- 
ent nations realise that it is not necessary 
to be merely dignified figure-heads, but that 
it is their solemn and moral duty before God 

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and man to make such terrible Christian out- 
rages utterly impossible. 

Oh ye who love mankind! ye who dare op- 
pose not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, 
stand forth! 

We do not ask for sympathy, we want 
justice! We want the Christian governments 
to da their Christian duty, and together with 
the Christian people to lift their Christian 
voices against the Christian rabble to compel 
them to cease robbing, plundering, murder- 
ing, and outraging men, women and children, 
in the name of political or religious Chris- 
tianity. 

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Every Christian nation must take its place 
in a Cordon humanitaire,. and must unite 
with one accord to compel Christian Russia 
to give to her Jewish subjects their full Civic 
Rights: and thereby extinguish the Christian 
persecutor. 

No throne — no power is able to set its face 
against that world sentiment of humanity 
and civilisation. 

Is there power only in armies and fleets? 

Is there glory only in the acquisition of 
territory? 

Is that not power too, which compels men 
to fling away their idols of silver and gold 

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and their gods of greed and lust? is not the 
greatest glory in winning men from vice and 
crime and in bringing them to the love and 
worship of the great Creator? He who re- 
places hatred and suspicion with love and 
sympathy is doing God's work, no matter 
what his creed may be. 

Righteous dealing is the Pillar of Fire to 
guide the people of the Lord aright. 

The Christians must join the Love and 
Justice Crusade, and teach the world TRUE 
Christianity; then will the Martyrs of Kish- 
ineff and Homel and Moghilief and Bialystok 
not have died in vain, if their death rouses all 

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Christendom to humanity's call to do their 
Christian duty. 

Justice and courage face new situations, 
and are undeterred by unknown tracks. 

Christianity's effort in dealing with the 
Christian persecutors must be decisive and 
universal. Truth is sovereign, and must and 
will prevail over all ignorance, error and pre- 
judice. 

*' Magna est Veritas et praevalebit.*' 

"Why should the earnest followers of Jesus 
hesitate, when the truth and the ten com- 
mandments must be preached? 

Woe to those who stand aloof in the hour 

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of trial, whose names are missing from the 
muster roll of the army of the Lord. 

Why are the lukewarm Christians waiting 
to put Jesus' teachings into practice? Have 
there not been enough innocent men, women 
and children slaughtered? 

Why these murders and blood-revenge? 

This Christ revenge is a blasphemy upon 
God's Decree. 

True religion is the effort in man to rise 
to that which is higher, upon the sacrifice 
of self. Are the Christian persecutors be- 
yond the reach of the earnest workers of 
Jesus? 

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Are they beyond the reach of the Mission- 
aries of the Christian world? 

Christianity, in countenancing this perse- 
cution of the Jews to the whim of knavish 
priests or private exploitation; Christianity, 
in daily permitting thousands of misled and 
ignorant Christian souls to fall to ruin, with- 
out energetic efforts to reclaim and save 
them, is guilty of high treason to humanity; 
and to God. 

The special anti-Semitic laws cunningly 
devised and enforced by the loathsome Chris- 
tian persecutor, is the most damning blot on 
Christianity. 

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The church to-day through its indifference 
for suffering humanity is widening the breach 
between itself and the people. 

Catholic, and Baptist and Methodist and 
Episcopal and Unitarian, must forget denom- 
inational lines, and work together to remove 
from their midst, the evils of race hatred, 
and the persecution of the Jews. 

'^And the Lord said unto Cain, where is 
Abel, thy brother? and he said I know not: 
am I my brother's keeper r^ 

Most Christians are willing to sing and 
shout '^We are saved,'' ^^We love Jesus" 
and do not care for their neighbors. But you 

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are responsible not only for the salvation of 
yourselves— but for the salvation of others. 
Eemember that your religion stands or falls 
by what you are doing to uplift another. 

You are your brother's keeper. 

The Divine call comes to every man sooner 
or later. ' 

The Russian persecutors are the deadliest 
foes to humanity and civilisation. 

Man arrayed against man creates great in- 
justice. 

Contempt for human rights is a dangerous 
attitude for a Christian government. It can 
only lead to more outrage and misery through 

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the example and encouragement it offers to 
the lowest aims of the criminal. 
America must become the best hope of the 

world— the duty of our Government is to see 
to it, that the foreign department is so orga- 
nised, that we can take as high a stand, and 
utilize to the uttermost the opportunity Cfod 
has given us to Lead mankind to a larger and 
higher plane, to make future persecution of 
any race utterly impossible. 

Christianity must rid itself of the spirit of 
persecution, and must realise that its funda- 
mental principle— 'Uove one another''— is 
that on which not only the great aim of exis- 

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tence— perfection and happiness thronghout 
Christendom— depends, but which has the 
gradual perfection of the whole human race 
in view. 

The Christian church must rid itself of its 
barbarous relics, its mediaeval excretions, its 
mischievous accretions and must plant itself 
on the high ground of Christ-like Principle of 
Justice, Truth and Love, ^4n the service of 
the Lord." 

"He prayeth best who loveth best 
All things, both great and small; 
For the dear God, who loveth us, 
He made and loved them all/' 

The highest religion is only now dawning 
upon Christian intelligence. 

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The Christian of to-day is beginning to get 
a new idea of what it means to practise his re- 
ligion in daily life, to carry its precepts of 
right living and right acting into his business. 
He has found out that it signifies an earnest 
effort to make his business not only a means 
of gain, but an instrumentality of help and 
service. His greatest opportunities of benev- 
olence and influencing others for good— are 
those which come to him in his business. It 
is while he is making his fortune, not after 
it is made, that he must prove himself a true 
Christian. 



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It takes more than a bank draft to start 
the heavenly flame. - 

Charity is no substitute for justice. 

It is becoming more and more the custom 
for men who systematically rob the mass of 

the community to give tithes of the proceeds 
of their thievery. These offerings are obvi- 
ously by way of atonement. They are bribes 
to public opinion, an attempt to purchase 
good will by sops to charity instead of by just 
doing and honorable living. 

The progress that is made over the fallen, 
mangled bodies of our fellow-human beings 
is such progress as no right thinking, right 

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feeling person can contemplate without hor- 
ror and regret. Better is the poor that walk- 
eth in his uprightness, than he that is per- 
verse in his ways, though he be rich. 

Gifts, no matter how munificent, which 
have been heaped up by public plunder, ex- 
tortion and trickery, are not Cliristian bene- 
factions. Some of the most gigantic robbers 
that the world has ever known, men who have 
accumulated hundreds of millions by wicked 
methods, part of the price of ruined homes 
and hopes and blasted lives, are by some min- 
isters praised and flattered for their liberal 
gifts to churches and colleges and missions. 

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Such an estimate does not represent Jesus' 
Christianity. 

No single individual can redeem the whole 
human race. 

No personal Messiah can become the 
Savior of mankind. 

Every man must work out his own salva- 
tion. 

God cannot be served by proxy; religion is 
a purely personal matter, and no one is so 
poverty stricken as he who is destitute of 
heavenly treasure. 

Man cannot be exempted from the care for 
the state of his Spiritual life. 

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The richest men in the worid need salva- 
tion not less than the least of their brethren. 

Every man is his own Messiah. 

Conscience is the voice of God within ns, 
the moral sense of man to do right. 

While we believe the promise of to-mor- 
row, we must feel the wondrous meaning of 
today. 

It is impossible to be quite happy unless 
we are trying to do something noble for 
others. 

The way to God is by the road of men; 
find the far Heaven in near humanity. 
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: 

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but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a 
curse. 

Kindness is a tiny seed; it blossoms forth 
sweet friendship. Goodness is a spring that 
widens slowly into the river, and flows into 
the love ocean of God. 

Christendom must awaken to a sense of its 
individual responsibility, announcing to the 
world the death knell of intolerance, greed, 
hatred and injustice, and heralding the ad- 
vent of mutual forbearance, unselfishness and 
sympathy. 

*^Be ye doers of the word and not hearers 
only.'^ 

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Eemember you are your brother's keeper! 

Never was there a time when the love of 
fellow-men was stronger in men's hearts than 
now. We must express high ideals and lofty 
emotions not only in forms of language, but 
in action and deeds. Greatness is to be mea- 
sured by its power for good on the family of 
mankind, by its spiritual injfluence on the life 
of humanity. We must look on the sunny 
side of life, it makes existence so much 
brighter. If we cannot be perfection, we 
must endeavour to be our best and truest 
selves— that is what we must aim for. 

'Tis better that a man's own works than 

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that another man^s words should praise him. 

Our power is doubtless limited, but we 
can surely learn to do far more than we have 
yet accomplished; more than we have yet 
conjectured as within the range of possibil- 
ity. Life even at its longest is brief, and 
there are thousands of splendid, wonderful 
things to be crowded into it. 

Human life is not meant to continue as it 
is now in race hatred and warfare. 

War is often brought about by the vanity 
of individuals, not by necessities of nations, 
and wars would be few, if the men that start 



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them were compelled to face the first fire of 
the enemy. 

If any ruler of men wants war, let him be 
kept at the firing line as long as the war 
lasts. 

Nor is the strenuous futility of mere ac- 
cumulation of material riches likely to satisfy 
or bring happiness to people. We carve our 
moneyed fame in snow, which melts in a day 
or so. 

A man's reputation is what his fellow-men 
make of him; a man's character What God 
knows of him. 

All real joy, all that consoles and adds to 

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hope, the only thing which really lasts are the 
good deeds. 

Wealth of character is far above all other 
riches. 

To realise in one 's life the fruition of 
thought, love, endurance, patience, self-sac- 
rifice, and the spirit of a loving, sympathetic 
service, is to be at the very top notch of the 

finest human achievement. 

Sow thou the Seeds of Better Deed and 

Thought- 
Light Other Lamps while yet thy Light is 

Beaming, 
The Time is Short! 

Work is the best panacea known for dis- 
content and sorrow. 

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The good deeds we do remain to bless our 
having been and to help posterity in its 
march towards perfection. 

The world is beautiful, and may be far 
more widely happy than it has been yet. 
But we must jfirst cast aside the husks and 
futilities of life, the tawdry superficial ham- 
perings which we have reared about us. 

Falsehood destroys moral life. 

Insincerity always is treason to the best 
in us. 

We must know that life is a unit and that 
our mission is Love universal; we must not 
neglect our Love work for private grief or 

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selfish sorrow. Let the dead bury its dead; 
we must work to scatter the seeds of Love. 

Courage and a strong determination to 
conquer can accomplish almost anything. 

It is to America's greatest glory that her 
leading men were sincere men. 

Sincerity is the soul asserting itself. We 
must make constant and earnest endeavor to 
actualise an ideal, perfect life in this world 
as the best preparatian for the next; living 
to live, not living to die! 

We must realise that we are not earth- 
born, but created in God's spiritual image, 
that we are a part of a great orderly and 

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mutually helpful cosmos, that we are not 
stranded or isolated in a foreign Universe, 
hut that we are a part of it, and closely akin 
to it, that we are the children of God and 
heirs of an immortal life. Then our sense of 
sympathy for universal brotherly love will 
be enlarged, our heart-felt aspiration will be 
realised in the great love of God. 

Let us constantly practise the great doc- 
trine taught by Moses and adopted by Chris- 
tianity: 

^^Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with 
all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with 



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all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and 

thy neighbour as thyself/^ 

To all who yearn for a higher life, the 

doors of the University of God stand wide 
open and ''whosoever will may come/' 

Cheerfulness is more profitable than sad-' 
ness, and one who earnestly tries to preserve 
an appearance of cheerfulness will find that 
he will soon have the spirit of it. 

Every one, no matter how humble his sta- 
tion, has it within his means to be Holy, a 
power for good in the world. ''Let us have 
faith that Right makes Might, and in that 
faith let us to the end dare to do our duty.'* 

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We must make every effort to realise the 

dream of '^ peace and good- will'' into solid 
actuality. 

The Church must either lead or be led in 
this world-movement of the race. 

There can be no compromise with the cor- 
ruption that has grown up within the body 
of Christianity. Jesus sacrificed himself: go 
thou and do likewise. 

Jesus' Christianity means the sacrifice of 
self. 

All goodness grows from love. 

True Christians must have and show a 



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living faith in Jesus, an earnest love of vol- 
unteer co-operation in the Lord's service. 

The Christianity of to-day is too specula- 
tive, too rigidly formal, too lacking in col- 
ouring and warmth. 

Jesus was a teacher of truth, of love and of 
the golden rule. 

The Judaism of Jesus' Christianity is the 
love message of God to man through man. 

Christianity must willingly accept Jesus' 
teaching. The seed of truth planted will 
come up in a glorious harvest. 

The best work of all is work for all. 

Learn the luxury of doing good. All the 

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-' . — ' ' ' 3 ' ■ 

great work in the world is simply doing the 
best that is in ns. 

The whole of a life is an education for 
heaven. 

The end of learning is to know God, and 
out of that knowledge to love Him, and to 
emulate Him, as we may the nearest by pos- 
sessing our souls of true virtue. 

All goodness grows from love. 

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou 
knowest not what a day may bring forth. 

There must be a sense that power is a trust 
and not a privilege, wealth is not his who 
hoards it, that life is to be valued not for 

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what it enables us to get out of people, but 
for what it enables us to give to people in the 
way of service. 

The highest and most important use of this 
world is the development of a noble man. All 
that science is worth is to serve as a torch 
in his hand to show him where to walk. 

^^He that goeth forth weeping, bearing 
precious seed, shall doubtless come again re^ 
joicing, bringing his sheaves with him.'^ 
Ye shall be ^^more than conquerors.'' 
^^The pure in heart shall see God." 
The Almighty ha^ charged Israel with the 
sublimest of missions. 

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The history of the Jews is one of invincible 
hope. 

They are a distinct and well-defined fam- 
ily among the people of the earth. In this the 
Jews have been, and are absolutely unique in 
the world's history. There have been nations 
with more of material wealth and power than 
ever had the Jews. Yet when those nations 
were conquered and overthrown, they prac- 
tically ceased to exist. 

The Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Egyp- 
tians, the Carthagenians, the Hittites, and 
other world powers, were, in their turn, at the 
summit in human history, and fell from that 

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summit to the foot and base, and were known 
no more among men. 

The\ mighty empires of antiquity have 
crumbled into dust; Israel alone survives. 

No individual can torday be pointed out as 
a descendant or survivor of the ancient world 
power. Yet a Jew, in Arabia, or China, or 
Africa, or Europe, or America, is known as 
a Jew, and not all the powers of earth have 
the ability to blot out that great and wonder- 
ful people. 

To the Jew time is but a transient thing. 

The world looks to Israel as God's living 
proof of the Divine inspiration of His law, 

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and as His ** witness" to the eternal truths 
of revelation. Neither adversity nor prosper- 
ity can alter this. All the promises that are 
given to the Gentile Nations are concentrated 
in Israel. *^I will bless thee and thou shalt 
be a blessing. *' ^*In thy seed shall all the 
nations be blessed." 

God has chosen Israel as His witnesses and 
guardians of His Law. 

*^Let there be Light." 

^^AU the children of Israel had light in 
their dwellings." 

The nucleus of the teaching of Judaism, 
from which all other religions radiate, is 

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^'The Lord is righteous, and He loveth right- 
eous deeds." 

The Divine fiat is, ^^I have separated you 
from the nations to be Mine," ^^and nations 
shall walk by thy light." 

Israel was chosen and predestined by di- 
vine Wisdom to conceive the idea of holiness, 
to work out the conception of a divine right- 
eousness. 

They shall go from strength to strength: 
every one of them appeareth before God in 
Zion.— Psalm Ixxxiv., 8. 

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points is that through Israel all the nations 
of the earth shall be blessed. 

May life, vision and courage be united in 
enabling Christianity to rise to its high sense 
of duty and justice, to acknowledge the 
boundless obligation under which the Chris- 
tians are to the Jews, to blot out the errors 
and bloodshed of the warring past, to cease 
persecuting the peaceful children in Israel, 
and for the love and obedience to God, have 
*Teace on earth, good-will towards men,'* 



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*^What shall it Profit a man, if lie shall 
Gain the whole world, and Lose his own 
Soul?' '-Mark viii., 26. 

*^For what doth the Lord require of thee, 
but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk 
humbly with thy God/'— Micah. 

THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE. 

Religion is the greatest force working for 
good among human beings upon this earth. 

It is a source of the purest happiness. 

Religion, rightly understood, rests on 
eternal truths, which can never be shaken 

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by scientific inquiry, or by the spirit of any 

age. 

EEVERENCE LOVE FOE THE DIVINE 
POWER THAT CREATES US, AND 
THAT WILL ULTIMATELY SAVE US, 
IS THE BEST INSTINCT IN A HUMAN 
BEING. 

The true scientific teacher is filled with 
divine enthusiasm, for he helps to unfold the 
laws of God. 

Religion is the great bulwark against mate- 
rialism in thought and act. 

The blind pursuit of material prosperity 
destroys spirituality, and concentrates every 

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energy upon the quicksand accumulation of 
money. 

Success has other meanings than great 
wealth. 

Nations and individuals have allowed 
themselves to be carried away with fatal 
folly by the mistake that gold is the condition 
of true happiness; it is a great mistake— oh, 
such a great mistake— to measure success 
merely by that which glitters from without. 

^^IVe now, alas! Philosophy, 
Medicine and jurisprudence, too. 
And to my cost Theology, 
With ardent labor studied through, 
And here I stand, with all my lore 
Poor fool, no wiser than before. ' ^ 

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The things that really count are the things 
of the soul. 

Money, education, position, power— all are 
worse than useless unless they bring helpful- 
ness and spiritual development to others. 

No money is honest unless its is ^^ earned.'' 
The receipt of wealth produced by the 
labour of others without rendering re- 
ciprocal service is despicable. Our Poor 
Rich men must be made to realise that they 
are committing a grave crime in hoarding 
their immense wealth for a few indolent, sel- 
fish, pleasure loving relatives who are already 
over-supplied, while millions of their fellow- 

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beings starve and die for the want of bread. 
Prevention is not the work of charity, but of 
justice. 

Great wealth is a great burden— a great 
responsibility. It invariably proves to be one 
of two things— either a great blessing, or a 
great curse. We are only stewards. 

The righteous considereth the cause of the 
poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know 
it. 

It is not wealth, or personal advantages, 
but the using of them to uplift humanity 
which constitutes the value of life. 

A man's reputation is what his fellow-men 

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make of him; a man's character what God 
knows of him. 

In the magnificent conception of the sol- 
idarity of human interests, the rich man must 
look upon his fortune as a Sacred Trust laid 
upon him by Providence for meeting and al- 
leviating the ills of humanity. 

The secret of joy consists in the harmony 
between the human and divine; that to ad- 
vance by struggle and through conflict as life 
progresses toward true happiness is ultimate 
victory—the wholeness, spiritual and phys- 
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is abundantly given to the poor in spirit from 

the treasure house of God. 

» 

Not a tear of sacred sorrow, not a breath 
of holy desire, poured out in prayer to God, 
will ever be lost, but in 6od*s own time and 
way will be wafted back again in clouds of 
mercy, and fall in showers of blessing upon 
us and upon those for whom we pray. 

Be of good courage, and he shall strength- 
en your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. 

Earthly success without the hope of a fu- 
ture, is but the dim spark of a glow-worm 
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lights up the soul of the simple believer in 
God. 

The religion of the future— the religion 
when Christendom shall have awakened from 
its long dark nightmare of greed, selfishness, 
and persecution, to a higher plane of con- 
sciousness, to the religion of Love for all 
mankind, to a sense of its individual respon- 
sibility, the religion that Moses and Jesus 
preached, will not be to strive in this world 
for fame, or wealth, or power, or place, but 
to serve and spiritually uplift others— to be 
of help to the world. It will be a religion of 
love and deeds, which will speak to the heart 

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of th€f common people, so that they will hear 
it gladly. 

The religion of the future will not consist 
in the church display of highly bejewelled 
and decorated dummy saints, barbarous rel- 
ics, and gory tableaux, the religion of the 
future will be divine humanitarian Love— it 
will be essentially one of deeds, not creeds. 
It will be the grand Ideal— the living spirit 
of perfect and spiritualized Manhood, whose 
nature is the nearest akin to God. 

^'Though no man ever know or see 
Aught of thy soul 's deep mystery, 
Yet it should be so white and fair 
That God caa be seen dwelling there. '^ 

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Ttie highest worship of man needs no 
temple. The empire of the ritual of the soul 
transcends all space, all time and all limi- 
tation. 

Kindly and loving actions, helpful service 
to others will be the daily prayers of the heart 
breathed into the heart of God. 

*'Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, 

And men below and Saints above; 

For love is heaven and heaven is love/* 
' Men will be transfigured and raised above 
themselves by the power of principles; they 
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men is the all-satisfying life for the individ- 
ual and the community. 

It will not be a question of large worldly 
wealth of the person, or position in society, 
by which the individual will be judged and 
considered; but instead it will be a high 
sense of honour, and noble performance. It 
will not be a question of building churches, 
but of building character. It will be Man- 
hood versus Money. 

To make the human will intelligently and 
unswervingly righteous, is the goal of all 
humaji education, for the most learned and 
the ignorant will trust alike to the hope of 

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immortality, and in the great love of God. It 
will be each for all; and all for each. 

It will be a religion that satisfies man^s 
soul, and it will be a religion for every man. 

The essential of human progress is in moral 
growth. 

The home is pre-eminently the place where 
not only the beginning, but the shaping of 
life are determined. 

^^As the twig is inclined so the tree is 
bent.^' 

*' Train a child up in the ways he should 
go and when he is old he will not depart from 
them/^ says the Bible. 

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Father and Mother should be United in the 
children's training and never be at cross 

purposes. Disobedient children as a rule are 
the consequence of disobedient parents. Be 
true then yourselves to the ten command- 
ments the law of life, of home, of education, 
and all will be well. 

The home should be endeared by a thou- 
sand hallowed associations, enshrined and 
jewelled in one's heart, by a thousand uplift- 
ing, ennobling, and sanctifying ties. 

Hitherto the good influence of women upon 
men has not been as earnest as it might be, 
we have been trusting a good deal to luck 

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and accident. Perhaps we shall improve each 
other a good deal more when we begin to 
utilise, in a scientific way, the peculiar power 
that we have of influencing each other 
through the desire for approval. 

Women could easily make men give up all 
their bad habits. And men could improve 
women a great deal— men, as a rule, try to 
come up to the ideals of women. 

It is to be hoped that in the near future, 
each sex will emphasise more strongly the 
importance of spiritual development and 
soul culture. 

Woman's is the stronger influence, because 

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the influence of one human being upon 
another depends largely upon moral force. 
Woman has Always been Morally Superior 

to Man. 

If women will take the trouble they can 
add about a hundred per cent, to the value 
of men in the next fifty years, simply by en- 
couraging, and showing approval of those 
spiritual qualities which make a man's life 
really worth while. 

Most husbands and wives are bored with 
each other because they are strangers- 
there is no spiritual bond between them. 
Marriage is often a life long misunderstand- 

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ing. It OUGHT to be a life long understand- 
ing. 

Marriage is, or ought to be, a partner- 
sbip, in the best sense of the term, and each 
of the partners therein has certain duties and 
obligations which he and she are in honour 
bound to fulfill, according to the best of their 
ability. 

To love is to understand, and to be loved is 

to be understood. 

True lovers the gift which God has given 

To man alone beneath the heaven. 

It is the secret sympathy, 

The golden link, the silken tie. 

Which heart to heart and mind to mind 

In body and in soul can bind. 

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Marriage is the university of character. 
In it a man and woman should grow spiritu- 
ally. 

By interpreting each other they interpret 
their souls. The perfect marriage is a duel 
of self-sacrifice, in which the spoils go to both 
the victor and the vanquished. 

Give to a husband and wife some genuine 
love, a habit of honest thinking and acting, 
and above all, reverence for a Power higher 
than themselves, and there will be the great- 
est happiness between them. 

Woman is a man's guardian angel, truly, 



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and Always His Better Half. Men improve 
as women compel them to improve. 

For Marriage, rightly understood, 
Is to the Virtuous and the Good 
A Paradise below. 

In the near future, husbands and wives will 
have awakened from their low spiritual con- 
dition, and instead of the present animal tie 
by which most of them are bound— they will 
be united in the true faith, and the sweet 
trust in God. 

For they will have realised that the largest 
volume of human life is but a very small 
book. And what are the eighty odd years of 

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earthly existence, when compared with the 
thousand million years which just open into 

the great future of eternal life. 

^^Not by the years we live, 

But by the good we do to those around, 

Should life computed be. 
Not by the wealth attained 
Should we possession count, but by that 
given, 

To aid humanity.'' 

And the mothers will be filled with justice 
unwithering in its strength, they will feel it 
their solemn duty, to look after and guard 
the honour of other women's daughters, with 
the same affection and as jealously as if they 
were their own flesh and blood. 

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Instead of their present attitude of hearts 
less indifference, mothers will feel the sacred 
duty devolved upon them, of having the wel- 
fare of others at heart— for the good of ail- 
so that they will teach their own sons not to 
trifle with the innocent, ignorant, or fallen 
daughters; but rather to assist, protect, and 
uplift them.— Ubique, Semper, et ab Omni- 
bus—everywhere, always, and by all. 

Holiness is wholeness, or healthiness— to 
use the Hebrew expression. 

God made the body to be a fearful and 
wonderful instrument; sickness that comes 



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from disobedience to the law of God repre^ 
sents a form of personal degradation. 

Many people believe in the doctrine of folly 
and think that life is not worth living except 
in frivolity, pleasure and sin. They are ig- 
norant of the need of a Spiritual help, with- 
out which this life is utterly useless and 
wasted. 

Sin is simply selfishness. It is an offense 
against the God within. 

Sorrow is inseparable from Sin. 

We must bear in mind the pregnant fact 
that all disease is some form of corruption, 
some retrogression against nature's laws— 

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and that when men become spiritually God- 
like, they will necessarily become whole phys- 
ically. ^'For soul is form, and doth the body 
make/' 

You are your ^brother's keeper/ 

'Tor no man liveth to himself and no man 
dieth to himself/' 

The influence of example is perhaps the 
greatest responsibility known to man, for 
upon it depends largely the promotion and 
diffusion of brotherly love. 

Good will to all men and GRATITUDE to 
God, that should be the sentiment for every 
one. 

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Between morals and religion, there can be 
no dividing line; beauty and truth must be 
living realities. 

Good morals are a constituent part of life. 
He who has true religion lacks nothing. 

The mothers are the educators of men. 

The hope of a higher humanity depends 
upon the mothers of unborn children— by 
woman ^s purity, by woman's spirituality and 
tenderness and patience the cords of eternal 
love are tied between this earth and heaven. 

Of all events here on earth, the greatest is 
the birth of a baby. The mother's weak 
hand supports the heavy, dull baby head and 

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guides it to its rest on lier breast. And that 
hand which supports the head of the new 
bom baby, the mother's hand, supports the 
civilisation of the world. 

Whatever a man IS, woman makes him. 
Every emotion, thought and desire of the 
mother before the child's birth is reflected 
in that child's temperament. 

The mother is pre-eminently the spiritual 
guide shaping the life of the child. 

Into the woman's keeping is committed the 
destiny of the generations to come after us. 
It is her life the child re-lives. 

We must preserve the old eternal decencies 

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of life or pay the penalty. We must fight the 
low materialism and lust of our flesh with 
the higher weapon of spirituality. 

We must cultivate human character,— as 
the rainbow is made up of many colours, so 
character is composed of attractive ennob- 
lingf qualities— honesty, self-control, courage, 
gentleness, patience, forgiveness, purity, holi- 
ness, trust and confidence in God. 

The battle ground of the struggle of life is 
in the field of the commonplace, every man 
can be a hero by his honest conduct and 
righteous dealing. 

Every one can spread Love and Happiness 

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if in the small diversities, the thousand and 
one small trials and troubles of life, we learn 
to give and take, bear and forbear; to do our 
best for the benefit of the common weal. 

We become robust only through exercise, 
and every faculty of the mind, and every at- 
tribute of the soul grows strong only as it is 
exercised. 

What we need most is soul culture. 

The practically Universal hope of the Soul 
is a fact; it exists; as real as a granite cliff. 
And no knowledge, ancient or modem, is 
capable of proving it to be unfounded. 

The unreality of much which is called 

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knowledge, the insincerity of sentiment, and 
the merely assumed appreciation of moral- 
ity furnish the greatest hindrance to the 
progress and improvement of the spiritual 
life. 

Selfishness, self-indulgence not only feeds 
itself, but it also feeds on itself. It is the 
cancer of the soul. 
**Be sure thy sins will find thee out.'' 
Most people are living in degrading bond- 
age, they are complete slaves to the unessen- 
tial—they worry about paraphernalia, orna- 
ments, clothes, fashions and frivolous amuse- 
ments. All is rush and jump and whirl; peo- 

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pie have so many engagements that they have 
no time or inclination to get acquainted with 
themselves, to seek the solitude with nature 
and with God, to ask what life is for, and to 
try to work out intelligently the problem that 
is set for them. 

The soul is the fountain of eternal youth, 
if one learns how to make it bubble up. 

Few of us make the most of our minds. 
The body ceases to grow in a few years; but 
the Soul, if we will let it, may grow as long 
as life lasts. 

'^Look round the habitable world, how few 
Know their own good, or, knowing it, pur- 
sue.'^ 

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Spiritual power comes not by external ex- 
citement; we can not reach the sonl through 
the channels of material investigation. 

But only by the religious feelings which 
absorb the soul— the Majesty which aspires 
to the highest. 

The soul links man with the universe of 
God. 

We must call earnestly upon Ourselves— 
from the depths of Ourselves. 

Soul of God in myself, Come help, help 
me to reach THY PRESENCE ! 

What seems quite clear is that the indif- 
ference to the Soul is caused by not under- 

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standing that the Soul is the Real Self, the 
only part which lasts, the Divine in man, 
which most men are sacrificing to the per- 
ishing things of time. 

It is through the Soul we obtain inspira- 
tion. And when we lose touch with our 
Soul we become a mere prisoner in the dun- 
geon of matter, through which we peer a little 
way by the windows of the senses. 

When man first finds himself conscious of 
life he is purely animal— the new bom child. 
A sense of hunger and cold, of warmth, of 
thirst and a capacity to suffer if his skin is 
bruised or scratched, with a certain dull per- 

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ception of light and sound. That is the be- 
ginning of life in the world of man. These 
children in mental development are in fact 
human moles. They can only realise and un- 
derstand what they can touch or feel ; or they 
can only comprehend what is brought to 
such intelligence as they have through the 
five physical senses— seeing, smelling, hear- 
ing, tasting and feeling. 

They have no imag^ation for the future 
and no memory for the past. They are 
bunglers in the a, b, c, of life, forever re- 
maining slaves of their own making instead 
of becoming free men. 

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How few of these human moles progress 
to find the Soul? 

The materialists— the skeptics (?) think 
that our earthly exit means complete anni- 
hilation; they say ^ Death ends it all!' They 
measure the infinite soul by the narrow limi- 
tation of the body, and they reject the Soul, 
because it cannot be seen, it is out of the 
realm of logic, they only Believe what they 
can see! 

Can they see the Law of Gravitation? 

Can they see Electricity, or Thought, the 
greatest power of all? 

How often do we encounter people, who 

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parrot-like repeat: ^^No one^ has ever re- 
turned from the unknown land to tell ns 
abont the soul!'* 

All that is only covering a mystery with 
a phrase. It is only a stake set up by the 
Faithless,— to mark the boundary lines of 
their lack of faith and ignorance. 

Faith to the skeptic is out of the realm of 
logic, unprovable and inexplicable. They 
reject the Soul because they cannot under- 
stand. 

The commonest things about us are unex- 
plained and inexplicable. 

A snowflake, an ice crystal, a grain of 

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sand, a drop of water, embrace mysteries 
which have baffled the proudest efforts of 
human intellect to solve. 

The human moles— the skeptics with their 
uttered ignorance and morbid doubt, are all 
as children in the dark, making guesses at the 
colours of shadows thrown upon a screen. 
They do not see the colour, and yet they pro- 
nounce confident judgment, that ' ' death ends 

it aur^ 

i i There is no Death ! What seems so is trans- 
ition; 
This life of mortal breath 
Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 
Whose portal we call Death. ' ' 

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^^Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; 

The soul that rises with us, our life's star 

Hath had elsewhere its setting, 

And Cometh from afar; 

Not in entire f orgetfulness, 

And not in utter nakedness, 

But trailing clouds of glory do we come 

From God who is our home/' 



Jesus put the soul in one side of the scale, 
and the whole world in the other, and asked: 

^^What shall it profit a man if he gain 
the whole world and lose his own SoulT' 

To find the Soul is the way to salvation; 
there must be searching of Soul which is most 
beneficial to every seeker of truth. 

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There is an unliampered joy in the contact 
of mind with mind, of spirit with spirit. 

To cultivate the Soul means doing some- 
thing the labour that is known by its fruits, 
benefitting the human race— something for 
man and God. 

We must make a daily round in the garden 
of thought— we must gather the noble-love 
blossoms, and then freely give them away to 
all. 

Whether life is to be a failure or success 
depends entirely on whether we allow the 
non-essentials to divert and hinder and choke 
the Soul forces. 

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The Soul is the indestructible— the divine 
kernel in the husk of clay. 

The philosophy of true living is in the 
Spiritual self! The forces of the Soul must 
make you all you will ever be. 

* * And ye shall know the truth, and the truth 
shall make you free/^ 

we must cultivate an interior, active, vigor- 
ous life of the soul— that is to say, the bring- 
ing out of the best that there is in one's 
nature, the quickening and development of 
the power of thought, of love, of endurance, 
of patience, of self-sacrifice, of helpfulness. 

The mothers are the moulders of men. 

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The mother's ideal must be to bring about 
a higher development of the human race, to 
diffuse a spirit of unselfish love abroad over 
the world— a beautiful sentiment of altruism 
should radiate from pure noble motherhood 
as does the light from the sun. 

It was a divine appointment to keep the 
Sabbath. ^^And the Lord spake unto Moses, 
saying, Speak thou unto the children of 
Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths ye shall 
keep. 

It is to be greatly deplored that the re- 
formed Jew (?) as a rule, in the changed at- 
mosphere of the modern world violates the* 

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Sabbath. We ought more sacred to guard 
this, the token of our covenant with God. 

Prayer is the great force which links God 
and man. It is the ineradicable, the immor- 
tal instinct with which God has endowed 
man, the finest gift of the Fathers' unspeak- 
able bounty. 

^^Six days may wealth divide the poor, 
0, Dives, from thy baniqnet hall; 

The seventh an angel ope's the door. 
And smiling welcomes all.'^ 

Six days stem labour shuts the poor 
From Nature's splendid banquet hall, 

The seventh the Father ope's the door. 
And holds His feast for all!" 

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There is no place like home for real relig- 
ion. The mature character of the man re- 
Hects very largely the teachings of the 
mother during the first seven years of life, 
when the brain is, as it were, made over the 
second time. It is to woman's spiritual in- 
fluence on a man in his babyhood that we 
owe a certain semi-moral force of manhood 
already. How touching are the portrayals 
of good men in their relation to their mother. 
The greatest and most beautiful pride of a 
noble son is his delight in the virtues of a 
noble mother. 

The mother must be led by Holy Ideals, 

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she cannot evade her great mission of being 
the first religious teacher of the child. The 
solid moral fibre which upholds the State 
springs from home virtues. 

Motherhood is the symbol of the highest 
purity. 

The mother's spiritual life must breathe a 
glorious faith— mothers must be imbued 
with this pure spirit of God, so that they 
may plant the seeds in the unborn children's 
souls! 

Every birth is Divine, and every Moral 
Mother a Madonna. 

We must foster in the children's hearts 

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the influence of religion, that makes them 
humble, we must cultivate in the soul and 
mind the sense of unselfish love and rever- 
ence that leads them to the footstool of God. 

Bring into your own homes the fruits of 
your righteous conduct, erect there altars 
upon which to lay every achievement of life, 
that it may go forth as a blessing to man- 
kind. 

Mothers will thoroughly comprehend that 
as they rock the cradle of humanity, so they 
are, in their sacred duties, answerable to 
God for the influences upon others. There- 
fore mothers will know that the Holy of 

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Holies, righteous home influences upon the 
soul, are the greatest of all. 

^^My House shall be called the House of 
Prayer For All Nations. '^ 

It will not be a question of building 
churches, but of building clean-hearted, high- 
minded men and women; who will vibrate 
with the universe of love. ^^ "Where two or 
three are gathered together in My name, 
there am I in the midst, '^ and that to bless. 

War keeps alive brutality; poverty and 
disease are its brother and sister. 

War is only concerted (legal?) murder. A 
barbarism against which every honest man 

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should raise his voice to protest against the 
continuation of wholesale slaughter which 
still disgraces the earth. 

Human lives to the warring rulers, are no 
more sacred than the lives of so many flies. 

Our common sense refuses to let two men 
settle their quarrels with the knife or pistol. 
The common sense of humanity should forbid 
nations to settle their quarrels with cannon 
and dynamite, ruining homes, making father- 
less children, and filling the world with 
gloom, misery and desolation. 

Humanity, in war and in preparations for 
war, squanders the resources that would give 

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us real civilisation, if the thousands of mil- 
lions that are devoted to killing fellow-men, 
were devoted to uplifting the race. 

Two men with a quarrel must go before the 
court and abide by the law's decision. They 
are not allowed to cut each other's throats. 

Two nations with a quarrel should be com- 
pelled to arbitrate, and accept the decision. 
They should no longer be permitted to wan- 
tonly devastate the earth, and to dig uselessly 
millions of untimely graves for brave men. 

There should be a general Arbitration 
Treaty among the nations. 

International differences, settled by war, 

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do not remain settled, but leave behind tliem 
the sleepless spirit of revenge, while a decis- 
ion of arbitrators leaves behind international 
good feeling and amity. 

The cannon is prepared against the day of 
battle ; but safety is of the Lord. 

There should be ''Constructive Co-operar 
tion in all those things that make for the 
humanizing of men which shall dispense 
strength more robust and virility more 
elastic as ever did destructive warfare. 

The Christian Nations, especially England, 
and America are wasting billions of dollars 
on military barbarism, competing in provid- 

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ing implements for slaughtering fellow- 
creatures when they should be leading in dis- 
armament. America in the name of Christ, 
the Apostle of Peace, must supplant the hor- 
rid and demoralising policy of militarism 
with the humanitarian policies of Peace, 
Justice and Fraternity. 

For the fulfilment of the nations' task it is 
only necessary to follow nature. The coun- 
tries are everywhere neighbours, and ought 
to be friends, showing confidence in each 
other, and mutually supporting pacific ef- 
forts. 

War is horrible when man demands the 

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right to kill his fellowman; the time will come 
when the dreadful love of slaughter will van- 
ish from the earth. 

The near future will see war abolished by 
the mere inability of the great nations to 
meet its cost in blood and treasure. 

Nations will, in the course of advancing 
national intelligence, learn that their liberties 
are not dependent upon completeness of their 
preparation to slaughter men. 

The nation is man in the many, and man 
has found personal violence the poorest pos- 
sible way of protecting his individual rights. 

The truly great are not the Marc Anthonys, 

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the Caesars, and the Napoleons who did great 
things and recorded great achievements at 
frightful cost to humanity; all for selfish am- 
bition; all for their own aggrandisement. 
The truly great are such as Abraham, Moses, 
Jesus who lived, suffered, and sacrificed self 
to free and uplift mankind. 

What nobler occupation can there be than 
that of passing on to younger human beings 
the best there is in us? The pen is mightier 
than the sword, and by its work the light 
hope shines in the roadway of Education. 

Truth will triumph. The great nations, 
seeking for the truth, through a mutual striv- 

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ing of nations after common purposes, to 
make the human race happier and better, and 
trying to live up to it, will recognise their 
holy relations towards one another, lofty na- 
tional ideals of Peace, of moral beauty and of 
truth— these are the Kingdom of Righteous- 
ness nations will seek to win. 

True glory consists in the moral pre-emi- 
nence of the people. 

Let us through our persistent efforts speed 
the day when the peace of righteousness, the 
peace of justice shall obtain among all man- 
kind, when nations shall no longer learn the 
art of war. 

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All lovers of justice must help make a 
National Decision for Universal Peace. A 
dream this? No, a forevision. Vision is the 
forerunner, always, of achievement. Let 
Nations dream and think of peace and peace 
will be sure of consummation. 

And after a while they will not have great 
armies of men trained to kill each other, but 
the only rivalry will be to see which can set 
the most righteous and loving example to the 
other in all things. 

The slaughter of human beings by the 
sword of political and religious greed and 
fanaticism shall have ceased. And the 

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prophecy of Isaiah shall have been fulfilled, 
^ ^ and the people of the earth shall have beaten 
their swords into plowshares, and their 
spears into pruning hooks, until nation shall 
not lift up sword against nation, and they 
shall not learn war any more/' 

*^And the work of the righteous shall be 
peace/' 

The time will come when no maji of wealth 
will hoard his money and live at his ease 
while another starves! Sympathy, helpful 
service and love will fiU men's souls. 

Men will spend more of their time in prac- 
tising the eternal truths. 

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There will be justice, and social human so- 
lidarity. 

It shall mean opportunity in place of char- 
ity, justice instead of Patronising philan- 
throphy. 

Seated each one under his own vine and 
figtree none will covet the possessions of 
others, but will gladly bow to the decision of 
the highest judge whose throne is pillared on 
justice and whose scepter is tipped with 
righteousness. 

When all men^s good shall be each man^s 
rule. 

There will be no conflict but that of the in- 

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tellect. Everybody will grant it to his fellow- 
man for the welfare of each and all. 

It will then be the true spirit of brotherly 
love. 

' ' And the peace of God, which passeth all 
understanding, shall keep your hearts and 
minds."— Philippians, iv., 7. 

For enlightened humanity will know that 
the deepest source of human wisdom is good- 
ness and faith— the greatest of all happiness 
consists in obeying God. 

^^The earth shall be full of the knowledge 
of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.''— 
Isaiah, xL, 9. 

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May the Divine message of God take speedy 
possession of the earth and blend all nations 
in one Kingdom of peace and love. For the 
code of Moses, and of Jesus, the world over, 
is the immortal Ten Commandments. Love 
to God and love to man— and that is the re- 
ligion for all time. 



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TO THE QUEEN OP ROUMANIA. 

Listen, Queen, unto the piteons clamours, 
Loudly to thy Eoyal throne which rise, 
Witnesses of pain beyond expression! 
Ties of sweet humanity are torn; 
Eobbed of their birth-rights, a hapless people 
Groans in bonds of slavery and shame. 

Swift descend, Oh Queen, thy throne of 

power. 
Cast one glance of indignation fierce 
O'er the horrors daily here enacted! 
Vile injustice heap'd on IsraePs race. 
Outrage, wrongs and violence unnumber'd; 
Yet thy loyal subjects are they all! 

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Thou wilt shudder at the dreadful vision: 
Nameless ill and bloody slaughterings, 
Cruel fate of High Jehovah's people! 
Tom from home and doomed to bondage vile, 
Piercing cries before thy gates uplifting, 
Pity of thy Queenly grace they crave. 

Nowhere can this persecuted nation 
Find a home or hearth, but only hate ! 
Everywhere, throughout thy wide dominions, 
Barb 'rous statesmen wrest the might of Law, 
Justice hides beneath the worst oppression. 
Slaying butcher-like a people's right. 

These, by Fate made subjects of thy sceptre, 
Have by thousands died in shameful woe; 
Thousands more to hunger thou'st forsaken. 
Wronged by brutal force of cruel men; 
Outrage 'scaping, lingering death o'ertakes 

them— 
This, alas, in fair Eoumania's land! 

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Now Eonmania's peasant may no longer 
Feed his flock, nor plough the furrowed 

glebe; 
E'en the workman's hand is mained and 

fettered, 
Scarce can he a scanty pittance earn, 
Bread to stay his crying children's hunger,— 

Doomed by laws which mock humanity. 

Even childhood's sweet and sunny spring- 
time 

Darkly clouded is—- with moaning filled; 

Yet its woes seem not to move thy pity! 

E'en thy schools are to our children shut. 

Law excludes them from their right of leani- 
ing, 

State and human duties thou neglectest. 

Far from home our little ones are banished, 
Helpless, wandering, sent to distant lands— 



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Theirs the race through whom God's truth 

was given, 
'Twas to them His truth He first declared; 
They, like thee, live guarded by His mercy! 
God— one God, created them and thee! 

Look, oh Queen, on this down-trodden peo- 
ple, 
Forced by brutal laws thy realms to quit. 
Chased from town to town by heartless 

statesmen! 
Young men full of life and vigorous strength, 
Old men scant of breath, of roaming weary. 
Sadly to their native land look back. 

Women pale, with tear-worn cheeks and 

wither 'd, 
Children crying plaintively for bread. 
Who along the exiles' toilsome pathway 
Raise with tuneful faith the solemn lay, 

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Chanting one old melody:— ^^ God's with us! 
^^We His children are, our Father He/' 

Leaders of this long procession, endless, 

See, amid the gloomy, hasty flight. 

Misery, arm in arm with Death, walks 

grimly; 
See! behind Humanity is slain— 
By tormentors killed who fail to practise 
Love of man, the Nazarene once taught. 

Full art thou, oh Queen, of gracious bounty; 
Queen! I thee implore to lift thy hand. 
Succor thy oppressed, devoted subjects, 
Call a halt, ere it shall be too late. 
Lest His children foully all be murdered! 
God, be sure, will punish and avenge. 



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KISHINEFF* 

(From the German.) 

Winter has gone; rough storms have ceased 

to rage; 
The sun is smiling brightly once again, 
And earth, with thousands of white flowers, 

twines 
A bridal wreath for her perfumed hair. 
Young Spring's eternally new wonders now 
Awaken a fond echo in the heart : 
And, in the branches of sweet elder-trees. 
Is heard the adoring song of nightingale. 
Like incense pure, it rises heavenwards,— 
A hymn of gratitude to Nature's God. 
And, with the music of the spheres, there 

blend 



^Prologue by Dr. Leo Leipziger, recited by Mr. 
Harry Walden, at a Benefit for the victims of Kishineff, 
on the 26th of May, 1903, in the Thalia Theater, Berlin, 
with the co-operation of Madame Sarah Bernhardt, 
Miss Nadage Doree, Mr. Ferdinand Bonn, of the 
Konigliche Schauspielhaus, etc. 

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The organ melodies of Whitsuntide. 
The hope of mankind is fulfilled again, 
And all once more were joy, but for the fact 
That e'en in May, poor sad humanity 
Must veil her face, bent under piercing woe! 

She shrinks from walking through the forest 

glade; 
To her the Sun of Spring no longer smiles, 
For she remembers well the long-past times 
Of darkest middle-ages,— past, but present 

still. 
The ruthless hands of cruel, brutal butchers 
Have stained with Jewish blood life's fair, 

young flowers. 
And bleeding hearts are weeping at their 

graves. 
Spring flees with horror; and foul Death is 

victor! 
Like a dark spectre. Superstition rises 
From out its shadowy tomb, and vainly tries 

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To strangle with foul clutch the heavenly 
dove 

Of peace, which soars aloft through God's 
free skies. 

The Earth is quivering ^neath fearful shocks; 

The flag of rude confessional hate is out, 

And on the towering heaps of murdered 
Jews, 

The murderer boasts himself— a real Chris- 
tian! 

And you will never leave this demon creed 

Which orders you to massacre your brethren? 

Oh! when will come the time when Jesus' 
mission 

Shall shed on Earth the Heavenly light of 
love? 

Cannot your hearts receive that noble teach- 
ing, 

'Neath which the holy works of charity 

Will change from hollow words to God-like 
deeds 

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In days whicli shall illume the happy future? 
Then, in the bosoms of all men on Earth, 
Instead of hatred, only love will reign; 
And we, with true benevolence, will heal. 
All bleeding wounds by life's hard struggle 

wrought. 
When once beneath this firmament 
The sweetest bells of May-day will resound; 
And, free from all restrictive narrowness, 
Religion will be Love— to God and man. 



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OR 



The Czar and the Songstress/' 
A NOVEL 

BY 

Miss NADAGE DOREE, 

the gifted young artist,whose latest novel,"Gelta; 

or, the Czar and the Songstress," is winning 

the most enthusiastic encomiums from 

both the Press and the Public. 



AMERICAN NEWS CO., New York. 

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, 

KENT & CO., Ltd., Paternoster Row, London, E. C, 

FISCHBACHER, Paris. (French edition.) 

CALVARY & CO., BERLIN. (German edition.) 



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Some Opinions Concerning 
^^Gelta^' 



John Hay. 

Department of State, 

Washington, October 4, 1902. 
^^Dear Madam:— I have received your let- 
ter and the copy of your book, * Jesus' Chris- 
tianity,' which you were so good as to send 
me. I will give your request due considera- 
tion, and am with many thanks, 
^^ Yours very truly, 

**Jahn Hay. 



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March 2, 1907. 
Dear Nadage Doree. 

I have just finished reading your God-in- 
spiring work. 

Like DAVID slaying the oppressor 
GOLIATH, your book ''Jesus' Christianity 
by a Jewess/' will in the cause of humanity— 
slay the BRUTE prejudice of the benighted 
Christian persecutor. 

Yours gratefully, 
E. A. Christian Holt. 

Ex-Senator and Lieut. Gov. of the State of 
Kentucky. 



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Dr. Max Nordau. 

'^Dear Miss Doree,— 

I have read your works, *Gelta' and 
* Jesus' Christianity by a Jewess/ first with 
curiosity, afterwards with interest, lastly, 
with great admiration. Your form is liv- 
ing, it is brilliant, you are a powerful liter- 
ary temperament, you say with exceptional 
force what you have to say. 

^^ Believe me, dear Miss Doree, with deep 
respect and high appreciation, 

*^ Yours very sincerely, 

*'Dr, Max Nordau. 



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Dr. Alcineous Jamison, 
Dear Miss Doree: 

I read your magnijficent 'Gelta/ You have 
given the world a Christ lesson. In the 
'Peace on Earth/ the Jew and the Gentile 
meet— that is you and I dear *Gelta/ we 
clasp hands in one common bond of brotherly 
love; the sublime doctrines you promulgate 
are distributed to the four comers of the 
earth, and in the distribution your work is 
made manifest by the uplifting of the human 
race. 

Yours with deep admiration, 
Alcineous Jamison, M. D. 



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The Rev. Dr. Pereira Mendes. 

^^Dear Miss Doree,— I read your book 
'Gelta' with much interest. I am not given 
to flattery. But I will say that every line 
leads to a beautiful climax which under your 
pen shows the nobility and self-sacrifice of 
the Jewish character. 

^^It is to me not so much 'Gelta' as the per- 
sonification of our nation which you really 
portray. 

* *We owe you much for your work. It will 
help to remove Christian prejudice; it will 
help to make those who v/orship a dead Jew 
honour every living one. And it will help us 
to honour our own destiny— that is most im- 
portant. Every home should contain 
^Gelta.''^ 



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Admiralty, Whitehall, London. 
The Ven. Archdeacon 

W. Stuart Harris, M. A., 
Chaplain of the Fleet and Inspector of Naval 
Schools. 
^^I read yonr books 'Gelta' and 'Jesus' 
Christianity by a Jewess' with hearty satis- 
faction. Your work is three-fold— Evange- 
listic, Educational, and Remedial. Deserving 
of the highest praise. * Jesus' Christianity 
by a Jewess' ought to be gladly welcomed in 
every household. Your ringing denunciation 
of infamy; your indictment of the Christian 
governments for their inactivity in the pres- 
ence of a monstrous crime, your powerful, 
soul-stirring appeal to Christendom against 
the outrageous persecution of the Jews must 
go straight to the heart of all who prize 
righteousness. The public should be most 
thankful to you— the whole world should 
honour you for the great public service you 
are rendering. I do not hesitate to say that 
all nobleminded people will be eager to aid 
you in forwarding your great work.'' 

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The Rev. Dr. McOhesney, 

Dean of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, 
writes : ^ ^ Thank you for allowing me to enter 
the beautiful soul of the Jew through the gate- 
way of the Cliristly 'Gelta.' Your canvas is 
large, your picture is great. *Gelta' settles 
between the Jew and the non- Jew— the vexed 
intermarriage question for all time.— *' The 
chosen people of God" through their spirit- 
ual life must ever remain 'a separate and pe- 
culiar people' for the uplifting of mankind. 
Your work is a splendid exhibition of genius, 
and shows the true, grand and human spirit 
of Judaism toward Christianity. 'Gelta' has 
a sublime mission, to Christianize the Chris- 
tian, and thereby do away with the absurd 
anti-Semetic prejudice which now hamper 
him in his efforts to follow Jesus' teaching. 

'^Many daughters have done worthily, but 
thou excellest them all." 

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The Late Marquis of Salisbury wrote: 

^^ Hatfield House, 
^^ Hatfield Herts, 
'^ December 5, 1902. 
^^Lord Salisbury begs to tbank Miss 
Nadage Doree for her inspiring works of 
'Gelta' and 'Jesus' Christianity by a Jew- 
ess,' and to assure her that he deeply appre- 
ciated her eloquent plea, which is destined to 
prove a blessing to the world." 



Admiral George Dewey 

has written Miss Nadage Doree, expressing 
his great admiration for the lofty character 
of the heroine of her book, and thanking her 
for the honour she did him in permitting him- 
to read ^^Gelta.'' 

Flagship ^^Olympia," Manila. 
'^Miss Nadage Doree. '* 

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George Washington Moon, Hon. F. R. G. S., 

the great English authority, says: '' ^When 
reviewing 'Gelta* in the retrospect, the per- 
fect picture of a noble life stands revealed 
entrancingly beautiful, sublime. ^Gelta* is 
in every sense one of the finest novels of this 
century. The book is a classic.'^ 

* 'Jesus' Christianity by a Jewess'* is the 
greatest love interpretation of Christ's teach- 
ing the world has known since the death of 
Jesus. It will prove a blessing to the Chris- 
tian world. God bless you for having writ- 
ten this book.'' 



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The Rev. Henry Frank 
writes: ** 'Gelta' has afforded me exquisite 
pleasure. It abounds in eloquent and thril- 
ling passages, glowing conversation, dra- 
matic situation, and holds the interest intent- 
ly from the opening chapter to the very end. 
It is not a little remarkable that a Jewish 
authoress should put into the mouth of her 
Jewish heroine such exalted and apprecia- 
tive sentiment concerning Jesus Christ the 
Christian Saviour. The passages referring 
to Him are so lofty any Christian minister 
might employ them in his sermons, and by 
doing so elevate his most enlightened audi- 
ence. The character of *Gelta' is extraordi- 
nary, and in the eyes of some, no doubt, quite 
impossible. But all ideals are impossible to 
the unawakened. She forestalls that woman- 
ly character which some day will become the 
universal inspirer of the race. The book 
must exert a great influence for good. Its 
literary quality is very high." 

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Floyd Wilson, 
the metaphysical writer, says: '* *Gelta' is 
a story worthy the psychic age. It has taken 
evolution so many thousand years for men- 
tality to create. Your heroine is a masterly 
type of the grandest mentality that marks the 
closing years of this century. 



*'Ost und West,'' Berlin. 
^^Miss Nadage Doree, a young American 
woman of great and varied gifts, of the high- 
est culture, whose works *Gelta' and * Jesus' 
Christianity by a Jewess,' are meeting with 
well-deserved recognition, is an inspired and 
inspiring Jewess, making a heroic protest. 
with the true fervour of a prophetess, whose 
hooks are destined to prove a blessing to hu- 
manity.'^ 

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it ( 



The Times, N. Y. 
Gelta;* or, the Czar and the Songstress, 
leaves an indelible impression on the mind 
of the reader; the white chapel scene, equals 
Dickens' most graphic pictures; the book is 
of absorbing interest. It is a startling ex- 
pose of originality and power. Everyone 
should read it.'' 



The Staats-Zeitung. 
'* *Gelta;' or, the Czar and the Songstress, 
by Nadage Doree, is a very remarkable book 
—its diction is masterful throughout, and its 
stirring scenes of intense passion between the 
Eussian Emperor and the Jewish maiden 
'Gelta' are most dramatic and full of the 
pulse of life." 

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New York Journal. 

^'Miss Doree's New Book. — The lover of 
stories with plenty of plot and incident will 
be delighted and deeply impressed when he 
sits down to read ^Gelta;' or, the Czar and the 
Songstress. ' ^ 



It t 



Literary Life. 

Gelta' is a classic and will speak to the 
millions yet unborn. It is a most remarkable, 
thrilling, and ennobling picture of a beautiful 
life, and altogether the most uplifting of 
modem books. '^ 



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The Rev. Hepworth, 
New York Herald. 

*^I am deeply impressed with the earnest, 
lofty soul of your Jewish heroine. You have 
drawn a great and beautiful picture of the 
romance and poetry of Jewish life. ^Gelta's' 
exalted sentiment of life is a Christ lesson, 
being free from prejudice against any human 
being, regarding every man as a brother, 
every woman as a sister, and striving to cul- 
tivate and cherish genuine human love for 
all that shall find expression in the effort to 
better the condition of all. Such is the spirit 
of 'Gelta,^ and therefore I sincerely wish the 
book might be read by every family in our 
own and other lands. '^ 



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